Prev: Quicktime Player X/MobileMe sharing
Next: Quicktime Player X/MobileMe sharing - it's Glimmerblocker
From: Larry Stoter on 29 Dec 2009 04:52
Any suggestions on what I need to do to get my home network to connect
to my office network?

The office has a VPN and I can, for example, use my iPod Touch to
connect over my internet connection and via the VPN to my office
exchange server, to check my office email.

I guess the problem is that my home and office networks are both using
192.168.x.x series IP addresses?

Suggestions welcome.

Larry
From: J.J. O'Shea on 29 Dec 2009 05:29
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:52:26 -0500, Larry Stoter wrote
(in article <1jbhcjm.1aov9cw1rnuoqsN%larry(a)666.com>):

> Any suggestions on what I need to do to get my home network to connect
> to my office network?

What do you want to do? Do you want to have one machine on the home net talk
to one machine on the office net? Do you want one machine on the home net
talk to the entire office net? Do you want one machine on the office net talk
to one machine on the home net? Do you want one machine on the office net
talk to the entire home net? Or do you _really_ want the _entire_ office net
to talk to the _entire_ home net? Those are different problems.

>
> The office has a VPN and I can, for example, use my iPod Touch to
> connect over my internet connection and via the VPN to my office
> exchange server, to check my office email.

That would be normal. The standard way of using a VPN would be to access a
particular node on the other net. While connected to that node, the remote
unit is, for all intents and purposes, on the other network.

>
> I guess the problem is that my home and office networks are both using
> 192.168.x.x series IP addresses?

More likely it's due to the security protocols in place.

>
> Suggestions welcome.
>
> Larry



--
email to oshea dot j dot j at gmail dot com.

From: Graham J on 29 Dec 2009 05:59

"Larry Stoter" <larry(a)666.com> wrote in message
news:1jbhcjm.1aov9cw1rnuoqsN%larry(a)666.com...
> Any suggestions on what I need to do to get my home network to connect
> to my office network?
>
> The office has a VPN and I can, for example, use my iPod Touch to
> connect over my internet connection and via the VPN to my office
> exchange server, to check my office email.
>
> I guess the problem is that my home and office networks are both using
> 192.168.x.x series IP addresses?

Talk to the person who manages your office VPN.

Also, your own network and the office network should be different, so you
could have

192.168.1.0 / 24 at home
and
192.168.2.0 / 24 at the office

for example.

Provided the networks are different, you could set up a VPN client on a
machine at home using the same credentials as you use for the VPN client on
the iPod. This should allow that one machine to connect to the office
network.

If you require your whole home network to connect to the whole office
network then both you and the office must have routers that will support a
LAN-to-LAN VPN. Examples are Cisco and Vigor. Your office IT support
should be able to achieve this for you. If not, report back; there are
people here (myself included) who could provide the necessary service to
your office IT people.

--
Graham J





From: Steve Firth on 29 Dec 2009 06:29
Larry Stoter <larry(a)666.com> wrote:

> Any suggestions on what I need to do to get my home network to connect
> to my office network?

Permission
From: Rod on 29 Dec 2009 08:44
On 29/12/2009 09:52, Larry Stoter wrote:
> Any suggestions on what I need to do to get my home network to connect
> to my office network?
>
> The office has a VPN and I can, for example, use my iPod Touch to
> connect over my internet connection and via the VPN to my office
> exchange server, to check my office email.
>
> I guess the problem is that my home and office networks are both using
> 192.168.x.x series IP addresses?
>
> Suggestions welcome.
>
> Larry

Outlook Web Access?
LogMeIn?

Either would need your office site/computer to be set up appropriately.

(I do almost anything to avoid VPNs and the unexpected/unintended
disruption connecting to/disconnecting from them often entails.)

--
Rod
 |  Next  |  Last
Pages: 1 2
Prev: Quicktime Player X/MobileMe sharing
Next: Quicktime Player X/MobileMe sharing - it's Glimmerblocker