Is there a way to allow certain traffic to bypass my work VPN which is through Pulse Secure? I can’t even view my internal IP cameras once I’m connected. Oddly enough i can still use my fidelity trading platform no problem. Personal don’t work either. All i want is for Microsoft Remote Desktop to use the pulse secure VPN and nothing else.
Your work VPN is probably a non-split tunnel, i.e all traffic routes through the VPN. You can create a static route to your local gateway with a lower metric that should force that traffic locally, but you’ll need to know what the destination addresses are of the services you want to access without the VPN.
Hah I feel your pain with Pulse Secure… I have to use it and it’s absolutely terrible
Do you have a second device? What I’ve been doing through quarantine is connecting to my work VPN on device 1, and then RDP’ing into device 1 that’s connected to work VPN from device 2.
Solved by just using the work laptop to VON into my desktop at work and then using Remote Desktop on my Mac setup with dual monitors to utilize the bigger screen with higher resolution.
Lol doesn’t sound hopeful. The only way i was able to work around this was to use parallels on my Mac and do work stuff in the windows 10 VM, but updating to MacOS Big Sur broke parallels lol.
I have a work Lenovo laptop but i hate using it. The screen is too small. When i connect it to my 4K monitor it won’t go full screen or full resolution for some reason no matter what settings i use.
Do you know the IPs of your RDP servers? If they’re all within a private subnet then all you need is some iptables rules.
You can’t full screen an RDP session on your mac though? Connecting over mstsc should not care about any local display restrictions.
So you would sign into your mac, then using Microsoft Remote Desktop from the App Store, connect to the IP address or hostname of your work laptop. This way all traffic from your mac gets routed over your lan, and then all work done within the RDP session from your mac to your Lenovo work laptop will hit the VPN connection and hit your org’s internal resources (such as whatever you are RDP’ing into over Pulse)
Typo. VPN. I was half asleep.
We connect via a URL and then i open up Microsoft Remote Desktop and connect in there to the computer name which itself is a URL ([email protected]
I meant when i try and full screen from the Lenovo it doesn’t work. Ah that sounds like a good idea. I’ll try that when i get home. So i will use pulse secure on the Lenovo and RDP into that laptop from the Mac?
Yep! That’s exactly what I do! (Although I only own and do this with Windows devices from top to bottom, but that shouldn’t matter).
This will require remote access to be enabled on the Lenovo though. It’s a toggle under Control Panel > System. The toggle requires local admin priv’s though, so if it’s turned off and you do not have local admin (an assumption I’m making since it seems you’re on a gov issued device) this will not work.
I just selected allow remote connections to the computer and applied settings. Do i need a user account tho?
You’d use the creds you use to sign into the device. I’m assuming your device is domain joined so you’ll likely need to enter yourdomain\yourusername in the username field, and then the password you normally use to unlock the Lenovo
Boom. Works like a charm. Thanks!!
It’s not domain joined. Just a local account. When using VPN from the laptop to the work desktop, we go in via a URL and then pulse secure does its thing in the background and brings up my desktop at the office. So i should be good with just using the local account and password. Can’t wait to try lol