Cannot remote desktop to home network while connected to company VPN
Hi guys, I work from home and use a company computer to VPN into the company network but I cannot remote desktop (RDP) to any of the computers on my home network while connected to the company VPN. Does anyone know how to resolve this? Corporate network = 16.xxx.xxx.xxx Home Network = 192.168.xxx.xxx Thanks,
March 19th, 2009 8:52pm

Hi, Thank you for posting. I understand that you cannot remote to your home computer when you are connecting to your company network via VPN. Based on my research, I would like to suggest the following: 1. Please check if you can ping the computer which you want to remote on your home network with IP address or computer namewhen the VPN connection is established. You can also execute the following from elevated command prompt on your company computer:telnet XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX 3389(Note: The XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX is the IP Address of your home computer)Please let us know if this is successful. If any error receives, please give me the exact error message. 2. When a Windows-based VPN client makes a VPN connection, it automatically adds a new default route for the VPN connection and modifies the existing default route to have a higher metric. Adding the new default route means that the local resources may be not reachable for the duration of the VPN connection. Therefore, if you want to access the resource on the both side, youcan try toadjust the system configurations: Configuring Routing on a VPN Client http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc776755.aspx 3. You can also try split tunneling on the client machine: Split Tunneling using CMAK http://blogs.technet.com/rrasblog/archive/2007/06/11/split-tunnelling-using-cmak.aspx Actually, to ensure that the connections are secure and proper, it is not recommend to change the Router Table. If you want to adjust the settings with your needs, please do that with your Network Administrators directions. Meanwhile, I would like to share the following with you as well: Split Tunneling for Concurrent Access to the Internet and an Intranet http://technet.microsoft.com/zh-cn/library/bb878117(en-us).aspx Routing and Remote Access Blog http://blogs.technet.com/rrasblog/default.aspx Hope this helps. Thanks. Nicholas Li - MSFT
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March 23rd, 2009 9:58am

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