VPN and rdp difficulty

[encephalopathy]

bit confused with this - i have a VPN service which i use on a remote pc on my home network - usually i log into this PC (on my home network) from my main pc using windows rdp and it works fine whether the remote pc is connected to its VPN or not

if however if i try from a different location e.g. parents house and rdp into the remote pc when it is connected to its VPN it won't connect.

is there anyway round this?

thanks

 

[Kol]

Had a similar issue so I just installed teamviewer on the host. If the other machine was connected to a VPN or not, I could always access using that. Worked like a charm.

 

[On Holiday]

 

[ecksmen]

When the target PC has a client based VPN established, it's default route / gateway is changed and the client VPN alters how the traffic is routed.

What I believe you need is a split tunnel, or somehow target the machine via the VPN service it uses (though I suspect this will not be allowed, but worth checking).

However I could be completely wrong and it's some client firewall getting all confused.

 

[encephalopathy]

thanks - teamviewer seems to work (on home network anyway whether vpn active on remote pc or not)- won't have a chance to check it from a remote location for a few days though

 

[ASE001]

You can get a round it by setting up local routes on the vpn client.
forexample 'ROUTE ADD 192.168.0.0 MASK 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.1'

 

[pepp77]

thanks - teamviewer seems to work (on home network anyway whether vpn active on remote pc or not)- won't have a chance to check it from a remote location for a few days though

Install it on your phone or tablet and use 3G to test from a "remote location".

 

[m4rkw7]

Disable routing ALL traffic down the VPN?