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@EdwardAngert EdwardAngert commented Jul 14, 2025

docs for coder/coder-desktop-macos#201 and coder/coder-desktop-windows#147

If the logged in Coder deployment requires a VPN to connect, Coder Connect can't establish communication through the VPN,
and will time out.

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Can you also include it for Windows?

coder/coder-desktop-windows#147

@EdwardAngert EdwardAngert force-pushed the 201-desktop-mac-vpn branch from 63b651f to 5c38c7b Compare July 14, 2025 15:02
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This is due to known issues with how [macOS](https://github.com/coder/coder-desktop-macos/issues/201) and
[Windows](https://github.com/coder/coder-desktop-windows/issues/147)
network extensions communicate with each other.
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Only macos has "network extensions". On windows it's some other issue with the VPN code that I haven't fully diagnosed yet.

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thanks @deansheather , I made this a little less specific with

This is due to known issues with macOS and Windows networking.

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Co-authored-by: Dean Sheather <dean@deansheather.com>
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LGTM

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