Ron - I know the IP of my printer but how do I get the IP for my subnet? Also, I can't ping the printer while I'm on VPN. I think LeMans is right...

LeMans - what is "split tunneling"? Is this something I can do at home?

This is really more of an annoyance for me. Right now when I want to print somthing I just disconnect from work, but of course, I'd rather not have to do that.

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Google is your friend:

"If you ever want to get a rise out of your ISA firewall VPN administrator, try asking him how you enable split tunneling for your remote access VPN client connections. Split tunneling is a major security risk for any organization that deploys any type of VPN server enabling users VPN remote access to the corporate network. All firewall and security administrators know of the dangers of split tunneling and do whatever they can to prevent this from happening."

http://www.isaserver.org/tutorials/2...sectunnel.html

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/com...uy/cg1003.mspx

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/732.../easysplit.pdf

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My printer supports wireless printing and being directly connected which is how I can print when connected via VPN and the other computers at home can still share it via the wireless.

Irrespective of industry, once an employee connects on VPN the company's network security is only as good as security at employees home network. Therefore you have to cut-off everything but the connecting PC while on VPN. Most employees have wireless at home and some have little or no security.
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Talking of wireless security, I had a neighbor once who had no security on his wireless network and tons of pics of his young hot-wife in bikini from their vacation and around the house in ____ on his PC for the world to see. I had to ask the guy one day "Dude, why you want the world to see your wife's exotic pics?"

Our VPN appliances are very secure, as our security group has everything locked down tightly. What are you concerned about primarily? We've been audited by 2 separate public accounting firms as well as have a perimeter test and white hat hacker intrusion test done every quarter, and everything comes back clean.

If someone hacks a users home network, it doesn't mean that they can access the person's company network. The hacker would have to either sniff the packets or crack into the PC that is VPN'd in via RDC.....

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I quoted:
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On your VPN client disable "use remote gateway" for all traffic and that should help.
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This is what I had mentioned earlier. If you can't disable the setting above, you cannot use split-tunneling and your local LAN would normally be invisible to you.

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I'll be glad when someone figures this out because i can't for the life of me believe that it's all that difficult to use a printer on a network protected by VPN.

X5Jay did you try this? Just have your remotely connected users click on Add Printer and select the Networked Printer option -- your devices will show up if you have enabled File/Print sharing on your system AND have elected to share your printer.

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I've been down this same exact road before........ There is no way around it if the network admins have disabled local network access when the VPN is active. I work in the IT department of my company and verified this issue with them...... No go...... Your best bet is to directly connect a printer if it is a big issue.