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From: Larry Stoter on 29 Dec 2009 10:29
I should clearly have given a bit more background and detail .....

Without a home network, I could, through my home internet connection and
the office VPN access from my home Mac that part of the office network
which I am able to access when in the office, using my office PC laptop.

I can still, at home, connect my PC laptop to my broadband router and,
via the VPN, access that part of the office network which I am able to
access when in the office.

However, having set up a home network (no change to the broadband router
configuration), although I can still establish the VPN connection from
the Mac to the office (pinging the VPN IP address gets a response), I
can't get any further.

What I want to be able to do is what I did before - access from my home
Mac that part of the office network which I am able to access when in
the office, using my office PC laptop.

I don't think it is to do with permissions - my usename and password
gets me access from the PC laptop and used to get me access from the
Mac.

It is clearly something to do with the way my home network is setup
because without a home network, I can access from my home Mac that part
of the office network which I am able to access when in the office,
using my office PC laptop.

Thanks,

Larry
From: Graham J on 29 Dec 2009 11:23

"Larry Stoter" <larry(a)666.com> wrote in message
news:1jbhrqr.1stnrlx1m7064iN%larry(a)666.com...
>I should clearly have given a bit more background and detail .....
>
> Without a home network, I could, through my home internet connection and
> the office VPN access from my home Mac that part of the office network
> which I am able to access when in the office, using my office PC laptop.
>
> I can still, at home, connect my PC laptop to my broadband router and,
> via the VPN, access that part of the office network which I am able to
> access when in the office.
>
> However, having set up a home network (no change to the broadband router
> configuration), although I can still establish the VPN connection from
> the Mac to the office (pinging the VPN IP address gets a response), I
> can't get any further.
>
> What I want to be able to do is what I did before - access from my home
> Mac that part of the office network which I am able to access when in
> the office, using my office PC laptop.
>
> I don't think it is to do with permissions - my usename and password
> gets me access from the PC laptop and used to get me access from the
> Mac.
>
> It is clearly something to do with the way my home network is setup
> because without a home network, I can access from my home Mac that part
> of the office network which I am able to access when in the office,
> using my office PC laptop.

I think we need more detail. Nothing of what you've described makes much
sense!

With PC connected to router, where is the VPN client? Is it in the PC or in
the router? Put another way, do you have to set up anything on the PC to
establish the VPN connection? Or is there something configured in the
router?

What does the VPN client connect to? Is is a router, or a server?

What do you mean by the "home network"? Conventionally this would be the
computers (including both Macs and PCs) connected to the router. It wold be
useful to know the IP address of this network - it will be controlled by the
router.

When you describe using a the Mac ***without*** the "home network", how did
it connect to the internet?


--
Graham J


From: J.J. O'Shea on 29 Dec 2009 12:44
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:29:41 -0500, Larry Stoter wrote
(in article <1jbhrqr.1stnrlx1m7064iN%larry(a)666.com>):

> I should clearly have given a bit more background and detail .....
>
> Without a home network, I could, through my home internet connection and
> the office VPN access from my home Mac that part of the office network
> which I am able to access when in the office, using my office PC laptop.
>
> I can still, at home, connect my PC laptop to my broadband router and,
> via the VPN, access that part of the office network which I am able to
> access when in the office.
>
> However, having set up a home network (no change to the broadband router
> configuration), although I can still establish the VPN connection from
> the Mac to the office (pinging the VPN IP address gets a response), I
> can't get any further.
>
> What I want to be able to do is what I did before - access from my home
> Mac that part of the office network which I am able to access when in
> the office, using my office PC laptop.
>
> I don't think it is to do with permissions - my usename and password
> gets me access from the PC laptop and used to get me access from the
> Mac.
>
> It is clearly something to do with the way my home network is setup
> because without a home network, I can access from my home Mac that part
> of the office network which I am able to access when in the office,
> using my office PC laptop.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Larry

How are you connecting to the VPN? Is the connection via your router, so that
the entire home net can see the connection, or is it just local to one
particular machine, so that only that machine sees the connection? What kind
of connection are you using? What hardware/software/combination of the two
are you using?

--
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