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I could understand if this issue affected both computers, as I would chalk it up to a security policy on the company side, but the fact that one works and one doesn't just doesn't make sense to me (yet).
A little backstory, if it helps (If not, skip to the next paragraph). I work from home, and use a company-supplied laptop. Because I work away from the office, I keep some of my personal work info backed up here, in case of catastrophe. As it happened, the hard drive on my work laptop died. So I was able to restore the programs and data I needed onto another pc to keep working while the laptop was in service, and get the rest from a server at the office.
Anyway, while on the my computer, I could connect to my local computers on my network, even while connected to the office through VPN. But, when doing the same thing on my work computer, running the same VPN software, I can only connect to my local network when that VPN is disconnected, even though my router shows that the laptop is on the network with a local IP address.
Anyone know why this would be the case?
A little backstory, if it helps (If not, skip to the next paragraph). I work from home, and use a company-supplied laptop. Because I work away from the office, I keep some of my personal work info backed up here, in case of catastrophe. As it happened, the hard drive on my work laptop died. So I was able to restore the programs and data I needed onto another pc to keep working while the laptop was in service, and get the rest from a server at the office.
Anyway, while on the my computer, I could connect to my local computers on my network, even while connected to the office through VPN. But, when doing the same thing on my work computer, running the same VPN software, I can only connect to my local network when that VPN is disconnected, even though my router shows that the laptop is on the network with a local IP address.
Anyone know why this would be the case?