Local Printing while on VPN connection

[Guest]

Hi,


I cant print to my office laser when I use a VPN connection back to
headquarters


IF i uncheck "use defualt remote gateway" I can print but cant getto my
mapped folders.......... any hint on how to get both features to work
(local print and navigate the remote domain) ?

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

Hi,


I cant print to my office laser when I use a VPN connection back to
headquarters


IF i uncheck "use defualt remote gateway" I can print but cant getto
my
mapped folders.......... any hint on how to get both features to work
(local print and navigate the remote domain) ?

That's the split tunnel issue. Personally I know of no way around that...

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[Sooner Al [MVP]]

That's the split tunnel issue. Personally I know of no way around that...

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Well, I guess I did not think that through...

If you use OpenVPN for example versus the MS PPTP VPN software you can
configure OpenVPN to either force all client traffic through the VPN tunnel
or not on the server side, ie. in the server config file.

http://openvpn.net/howto.html#redirect

If you choose not to force all client traffic through the tunnel, ie. the
default OpenVPN condition, you could print locally and access shared drives
on the remote LAN through the VPN tunnel.

Other VPN server/client software may provide the same flexibility. Others
can speak to that...

In case your interested this Cable Guy article addresses some of the
security concerns and the split tunnel...

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg1003.mspx#E2CAC

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Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)

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