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Michael.Hurley@gmail.com - 06 Dec 2007 21:15 GMT

Here's my scenario. Work machine (XP), uses VPN to connect to the
internet it's corporate network connection.
Mac Mini (Leopard) sitting next to is for personal use.

I want to work through my Mac via RDC to get to the XP machine.
The only time I can get RDC to work, is when I'm NOT logged into my
VPN on the XP machine.
The moment I log the XP machine into VPN, RDC drops the connection.

Is there anyway to fix this or is this a security policy of VPN that
blocks this?

Thanks all.
Mike

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Vera Noest [MVP] - 06 Dec 2007 22:57 GMT

Yes, this is a security setting in most VPN clients.

If your using the MS PPTP VPN client you can enable/disable split
tunneling.
See this Cable Guy article for help with that...

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

Note the potential security issues. Sometimes this is also a server
side function, ie. like in OpenVPN. If that is the case then you
would need to talk to the VPN admin about this issue...

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Michael.Hurley@gmail.com wrote on 06 dec 2007 in
microsoft.public.mac.rdc:

> Here's my scenario. Work machine (XP), uses VPN to connect to
> the internet it's corporate network connection.
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> Thanks all.
> Mike

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Mac Forum / Applications / Other MS Products / December 2007

New to RDC, VPN issues.