The Server is an XP machine. I can share folders across the vpn, but only from the server. Pinging other PC's fails, when vpn'd. I can, from a vnc connection, connect the XP server to other PC's.
If it is XP that is creating the DMZ, how do I disable it (without destroying my firewall, that is)? Joshua Davidson CK Computers Mob: 041 995 4246 ABN: 72 994 501 24 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Scott C. Best > Sent: Saturday, 1 June 2002 10:04 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Internet and LAN questions > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
