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Using Remote Desktop with VPN

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  • 19-12-2016 10:14am
    #1
    nozzferrahhtoo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,348 ✭✭✭


    Hi all, little techie question here.

    I often access my home computer from work using Remote Desktop. I have configured my Router at home to forward RDP requests to my main home computer. So I merely RDP to my Public (static) WAN IP and I get to my computer.

    All good.

    However I want to use a VPN from that home computer. So after I RDP into that computer I connect to the VPN I want. But then the RDP closes down and I can not longer RDP to my home computer address or access it in any way.

    The IP Address on the VPN is not static and is allocated each time I connect.

    Any way to do these things together? To somehow Isolate the RDP connection from everything else related to the VPN, so that one does not affect the other.


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    ED E
    Registered Users Posts: 36,167 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    The best solution is a VPN service with a per-application client. That way you can say Chrome: Use VPN, RDP: Do not use VPN.

    The other way would be to add an overriding default route to the remote location you access from, but that only works if you're accessing it from a static IP/small block (say only from the office).


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    degsie
    Registered Users Posts: 8,747 ✭✭✭degsie


    Check out split tunneling. Plenty of guides on the interwebs.


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