Josh:
Heya. Some thoughts for you:
> I have set up winvnc on my office LAN. I also have it on my laptop. I
> have DSL connection to my LAN through the server. I have set up vpn on
> the server to allow connection from the internet.
>
> I can log into the server from the internet, via vpn and can run VNC
> from my laptop to the server. I can't connect to any other computer on
> the LAN when connecting via vpn remotely from the internet. Is there a
> way to do this?
That's surprising. Unlike a VNC connection, a real VPN
connection should virtually transport your laptop from the wilds
of the Internet into the safe haven of the office LAN behind
your office firewall. In other words, for all intents and purposes,
your laptop *should* think that it's on the office LAN and so a
peer of the other PC's on your office LAN.
Of course, that would be with the most straightforward sort
of VPN setup at your office. There are other more secure and
increasingly common arrangements. For example, it's possible that
your office LAN has been setup so that incoming VPN users are kept
in a "demilitarized zone" of sorts, a halfway-in and halfway-out
state where they can reach the server for email or calendar info,
but *not* reach anything else on the LAN. That is, your lack of
connectivity might be *intentional*. If I were setting up a VPN,
I'd approach it this way.
I suggest trying this: after you VPN, try simply "ping'ing"
the IP address of one of the PCs on the LAN that you know is active.
If there's a DMZ-like setup, those pings should fail. If they don't,
try telnet'ing to port 5900 on one of the PC's that you know is
running a VNC server (eg, "telnet 192.168.1.17 5900"). Report the
*exact* error message that you get if this doesn't work, and we
can go from there.
Good luck!
-Scott
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