Routing and Remote Access VPN Question

[Paul Stephenson]

Hi Everyone,

I was wondering if someone could tell me if this is possible using windows
server 2003 standard edition and windows xp clients.

I would like to setup a VPN connection between laptop users and our home
office so that the laptop users can use Remote Desktop connection and
connect to their PCs inside the firewall.

I would like the user to do nothing but login and then have any packets
destined for a certain private network travel over the VPN but still have
the laptop users using their local internet connection for internet traffic.
This way they are only using VPN for RDC and all their regular internet
traffic still goes out locally.

Is this possible?

Thank you!

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

Well:

You can certainly configure this so that the home user can be connected to
their work desktop and still use their home Internet connection for
browsing. However, I don't know how you are going to control what happens
if they click on Internet Explorer on their work desktop. Maybe a mandatory
Terminal Services profile that removes IE from the desktop?

Most likely a home user would prefer to use their home connection because
running IE remotely over RDP through a VPN tunnel is going to be much
slower.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP