Using VPN through home network

[argee]

Hi all,

I have a wireless router to which my home computer is wired, and my
work laptop connects through wifi. I've shared my printer through the
network and all seems well. I can print from both comps. When I use
the laptop to connect through my VPN, I can no longer print to my home
printers. Once I disconnect from the VPN, the printers are once again
available.

I'm hoping here is a simple fix/work around!!

Thanks.

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

Its called spit tunneling and some corporate and SoHo admins, including
myself, disable that. That means when your connected to the VPN server at
work you can not access the public internet except through the VPN tunnel
and office VPN server/network. This also affects access to your local LAN.
Once you disconnect the VPN link you can access the internet and local LAN.
Its a security issue. Read more about it here...

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

This can be configured either on the server side, like I do with OpenVPN, or
the client side like the MS PPTP VPN client. Talk to your work admins about
this and see what their policy is...

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[argee]

Thanks Al!!

I'll talk to our Net Admin.

Its called spit tunneling and some corporate and SoHo admins, including
myself, disable that. That means when your connected to the VPN server at
work you can not access the public internet except through the VPN tunnel
and office VPN server/network. This also affects access to your local LAN.
Once you disconnect the VPN link you can access the internet and local LAN.
Its a security issue. Read more about it here...

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

This can be configured either on the server side, like I do with OpenVPN, or
the client side like the MS PPTP VPN client. Talk to your work admins about
this and see what their policy is...

--
Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)

Please post *ALL* questions and replies to the news group for the
mutual benefit of all of us...
The MS-MVP Program - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights...

 

[Tuzz]

I have successfully used the IPX protocol to get around this problem
for years. Currently I use the HP Network print wizard ver 3.06 to
set up an IPX port after I enable IPX protocol on the PC. The VPN only
tunnels IP and does not effect IPX. As a result you can print to your
local network printer using IPX. The only catch is that the latest
version of teh HP wizard no longer supports IPX so I have made sure I
keep a copy of the older 3.06 version.

If you can find version 3.06 somewhere this will solve your problem for
sure.

 

[Tuzz]

I have successfully used the IPX protocol to get around this problem
for years. Currently I use the HP Network print wizard ver 3.06 to
set up an IPX port after I enable IPX protocol on the PC. The VPN only
tunnels IP and does not effect IPX. As a result you can print to your
local network printer using IPX. The only catch is that the latest
version of teh HP wizard no longer supports IPX so I have made sure I
keep a copy of the older 3.06 version.

If you can find version 3.06 somewhere this will solve your problem for
sure.