VPN & Crippled Network

[elziko]

Through our network at work I have access to, for example, Remote Desktop,
to Google Groups and NNTP.

However, we can also connect to one of our clients VPN, but when we do this
I loose access to Remote Desktop, Google Groups and NNTP amongst other
things. So I have to connect to their VPN, transfer whatever files are
needed and then disconnect so that I can get on with doing my normal work.

It would seem that by connecting to *their* VPN *our* network access gets
crippled. Does anyone know why this happens and what I can do about it? I
have no control over their VPN but I don't actually want to access these
services over their VPN but over our internet connection.

TIA

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

What VPN client are you using? Many VPN server/clients prevent what is
called "split tunneling", ie. the ability to access the remote network
through the VPN tunnel while accessing the internet or local network at the
same time. Its a security measure. Depending on the VPN you can configure
that, ie. enable/disable split tunneling, on the server side like OpenVPN or
client side like the MS PPTP VPN.

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[elziko]

What VPN client are you using? Many VPN server/clients prevent what is
called "split tunneling", ie. the ability to access the remote network
through the VPN tunnel while accessing the internet or local network
at the same time. Its a security measure. Depending on the VPN you
can configure that, ie. enable/disable split tunneling, on the server
side like OpenVPN or client side like the MS PPTP VPN.

I'm just using the built in VPN client that comes with WinXP SP2. Is it
possible to use a split tunnel with this? If so how?

TIA

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

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

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[elziko]

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

Thanks, that did the trick!

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

Thanks for the feedback...

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[elziko]

Thanks for the feedback...

I spoke to soon! After following your suggestion, when I try and explore one
of the folders on the VPN that I normally get access to I am told the "....
is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network
resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have
access permissions. The network path was not found.". Un-doing your
suggestion allows me to access the folder again.

Any idea what this is, and is there anything I can do about it?