VPN, but also my connection?

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I work at home as a sales telecommuter, and I have long periods of inactivity due to minimal call volume. I connect up to our server using a VPN, and though I have a cable connection at home, I cannot access any outside websites. I am aware that this would have something to do with permissions on the VPN which I cannot access, but do I have the ability to "tunnel out" and access any other sites outside of these permissions? Product information for some items cannot be accessed due to our setup, and it makes the nights long and more than a little tedious. It would be nice to at least be able to check Hotmail

Please help?
 
Look at this TechNet article for help with this issue...

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/columns/cableguy/cg1003.asp

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Chris said:
Good morning!

I work at home as a sales telecommuter, and I have long periods of inactivity due to minimal call
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volume. I connect up to our server using a VPN, and though I have a cable connection at home, I
cannot access any outside websites. I am aware that this would have something to do with
permissions on the VPN which I cannot access, but do I have the ability to "tunnel out" and access
any other sites outside of these permissions? Product information for some items cannot be accessed
due to our setup, and it makes the nights long and more than a little tedious. It would be nice to
at least be able to check Hotmail!
 
Nope. You can't do anything about it if you are connected through VPN.
What VPN does is turns all your network connections from your computer over
to your server. In other words, its the same thing as you dialing in for
the internet or the server that your computer connects to through the cable
modem for cable internet. It is soley up to the administrator of the server
you are VPN'ing to for what web sites are allowed, if internet period. Most
of the time, it requires Internet Explorer to be setup through a proxy
server and then you can access the internet, otherwise, you have to
disconnect your VPN connection to regain Internet Access. Sorry.

Robert

Chris said:
Good morning!

I work at home as a sales telecommuter, and I have long periods of
Click to expand...
inactivity due to minimal call volume. I connect up to our server using a
VPN, and though I have a cable connection at home, I cannot access any
outside websites. I am aware that this would have something to do with
permissions on the VPN which I cannot access, but do I have the ability to
"tunnel out" and access any other sites outside of these permissions?
Product information for some items cannot be accessed due to our setup, and
it makes the nights long and more than a little tedious. It would be nice
to at least be able to check Hotmail!
 
Nope... You can disable this "feature", but there are security
implications when doing this...

See the Technet article Al mentions (on Split Tunnels).

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Chris said:
Good morning!

I work at home as a sales telecommuter, and I have long periods of
Click to expand...
inactivity due to minimal call volume. I connect up to our server using a
VPN, and though I have a cable connection at home, I cannot access any
outside websites. I am aware that this would have something to do with
permissions on the VPN which I cannot access, but do I have the ability to
"tunnel out" and access any other sites outside of these permissions?
Product information for some items cannot be accessed due to our setup, and
it makes the nights long and more than a little tedious. It would be nice
to at least be able to check Hotmail!
Please help?
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Chris,

There is another option which may be more suitable and less risky than
"split tunneling" in that Technet Article.........

If the network you are VPNing into has a proxy server ( such as ISA) you can
browse the web while connected via VPN *without* . This configuration would
redirect your web requests through the business proxy server and thus be
subject to whatever scanning or filtering the business has in place.

You may just want to ask the network admin if what you are trying to do is
permissible or other options.
 
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