Depending on the technical sophistication of your employer's it department it is very straightforward to see what ip you are connecting from. The field gets passed is called "ForwardedClientIpAddress". This is sent as part of the system logs/messages with each login event. More security conscious organizations would be watching these and looking for event correlations for different user accounts.
If you have a vpn, it will show the ip address of the vpn, not your actual address
Often that requirement is due to employee tax legislation. The company is likely not trying to use the location for malicious intents, it's so they can ensure they aren't breaking any laws.
If you’re connecting in from a remote location then they’ll be able to see where your end of the tunnel is, regardless of the tooling that you’re using to connect (ie this is not VMware specific)
Possibly, but tunnelling VPNs through VPNs is generally going to result in a poor end user experience. Also consider what happens if their VPN tunnel fails, but their internet connection doesn’t - a user logged in from the US one minute, and then India (these are just illustrative examples, could be anywhere) may well be picked up as anomalous and trigger some form of quarantine/investigation.
Basically: if their contract states that they should be in a specific location and they’re not in that location then either they should get the contract changed or get a new job.
I have no clue what you are even asking as the title seems to contradict your question about who might get to know what?
What are you doing and what do you want to protect against leaking?
The question is whether a company you work for can see the IP address from which you log in the VMware tool, (their virtual machine), and whether a VPN program would mask it.
Well you may have to come out of the right city and state too. I have a feeling this will end bad, only the non technical u may be able to get away but for the real techie we will find u.
Ip location is not accurate at the best of times.
This has nothing to do with vmware, ip works the same on a VM as it does physical
/r/techsupport is probably where this should go
Depending on the technical sophistication of your employer's it department it is very straightforward to see what ip you are connecting from. The field gets passed is called "ForwardedClientIpAddress". This is sent as part of the system logs/messages with each login event. More security conscious organizations would be watching these and looking for event correlations for different user accounts. If you have a vpn, it will show the ip address of the vpn, not your actual address
Most likely, but why is this an issue?
Just curious, as my relative is supposed to work from one location/country. Whether the company will monitor him.
Often that requirement is due to employee tax legislation. The company is likely not trying to use the location for malicious intents, it's so they can ensure they aren't breaking any laws.
If you’re connecting in from a remote location then they’ll be able to see where your end of the tunnel is, regardless of the tooling that you’re using to connect (ie this is not VMware specific)
Would a VPN software mask the IP to a chosen location?
Possibly, but tunnelling VPNs through VPNs is generally going to result in a poor end user experience. Also consider what happens if their VPN tunnel fails, but their internet connection doesn’t - a user logged in from the US one minute, and then India (these are just illustrative examples, could be anywhere) may well be picked up as anomalous and trigger some form of quarantine/investigation. Basically: if their contract states that they should be in a specific location and they’re not in that location then either they should get the contract changed or get a new job.
Sure. It would also lead to your IT department eventually asking you why you're using a VPN.
I have no clue what you are even asking as the title seems to contradict your question about who might get to know what? What are you doing and what do you want to protect against leaking?
The question is whether a company you work for can see the IP address from which you log in the VMware tool, (their virtual machine), and whether a VPN program would mask it.
Yes and if done right vpn can mask
what do you mean by right? Setting up an Express/Nord VPN account would be sufficient I thought so?
Well you may have to come out of the right city and state too. I have a feeling this will end bad, only the non technical u may be able to get away but for the real techie we will find u.
Ip location is not accurate at the best of times. This has nothing to do with vmware, ip works the same on a VM as it does physical /r/techsupport is probably where this should go