Using filtering rules

Filtering is a feature that allows you to control who can access a particular published resource. You can define filtering rules of the following types:

• User
• Gateways
• IP addresses
• Client device names
• Client device OSs
• MAC addresses

By default, no filtering rules exist for a published resource, therefore the resource is available to anyone who is connected to the Parallels RAS Farm. Once you specify a filtering rule for a published resource, only those users/computers who satisfy the criteria will be able to use it.

To create filtering rules, select a published resource in the Publishing list and click the Filtering category in the right pane. Using the Filtering subcategories, configure filtering rules for each one individually. All types of filters are configured similarly:

1. You need to select the Enable this filter option for each filter type that you would like to use.
2. You then specify the rule details, such as select users or groups who should be allowed to use the published resource, specify the Gateways through which users connect, specify MAC addresses, etc.

After you add one or more filters, you can see all of them as in one list when you click the Filtering category (the parent category for these subcategories).

Note that if multiple filtering rules are configured for a specific published resource, the connecting user has to match all of them to be allowed access to the published resource.