Printer access lost

[Tony]

I have a small network consisting of :
Laptop running XP Pro (cable connected, uses DHCP to get IP address)
Laptop running XP Home (wireless, uses DHCP to get IP address)
Brother MFC420CN printer (cable connected, static IP address)
All are connected through a Linksys router.

The XP Pro machine has no problem accessing he printer until I use a VPN
dialer to access a network at work,
then I can no longer access the printer. The XP Home machine has it's own
printer at the moment, thought I'd
get one machine working with the Brother printer first.

I changed the default install to give the printer a static IP address but
this has not helped.

The network I VPN to does not allow external access, ie. I can't access the
XP Home machine by name but I can using
it's IP address when I'm connected via VPN (the need to do this is rare so
not a big problem). As soon as I exit the VPN
connection I can access it by name again. Does this have anything to do with
the acces to the printer being lost?

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.
Tony

 

[Gary Fose [MSFT]]

Tony,

Understand when you make a VPN connection, you are funneling ALL traffic through that
tunnel. That is why you do not have access to your local network while you have the tunnel.

If you need access ot local resources while in the tunnel, then you will need to uncheck the box
to use the remote network default gateway in your VPN connection properties. This will allow
you to access your local network and the Internet thorugh your local network.

If you need to keep the tunnel up during this time, then you will need to put a route entry in the
route table for the VPN remote network IP range in order to use both sides of the tunnel at the
same time.

One word of caution. The reason we do not recommend being able to make a work VPN
connection and at the same time an Internet connection through your local network is that this
is a security issue. When you do this, you are opening a path to your corporate network
through your VPN tunnel that bypasses normal security checks at the company end (as you
are in as a trusted user).

HTH,
Gary

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'--'I have a small network consisting of :
'--' Laptop running XP Pro (cable connected, uses DHCP to get IP address)
'--' Laptop running XP Home (wireless, uses DHCP to get IP address)
'--' Brother MFC420CN printer (cable connected, static IP address)
'--'All are connected through a Linksys router.
'--'
'--'The XP Pro machine has no problem accessing he printer until I use a VPN
'--'dialer to access a network at work,
'--'then I can no longer access the printer. The XP Home machine has it's own
'--'printer at the moment, thought I'd
'--'get one machine working with the Brother printer first.
'--'
'--'I changed the default install to give the printer a static IP address but
'--'this has not helped.
'--'
'--'The network I VPN to does not allow external access, ie. I can't access the
'--'XP Home machine by name but I can using
'--'it's IP address when I'm connected via VPN (the need to do this is rare so
'--'not a big problem). As soon as I exit the VPN
'--'connection I can access it by name again. Does this have anything to do with
'--'the acces to the printer being lost?
'--'
'--'Does anyone have any suggestions?
'--'
'--'Thanks in advance.
'--'Tony
'--'
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