New to RDC, VPN issues.

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

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.TakeThisOut@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.
> 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