RDC from work laptop to personal PC while VPN-connected

[ColKurtz]

I'm a home-office based worker. If I'm not with customers, I'm on my company laptop most of the day with an active VPN connecton to work. I also usually have an RDC session open to my personal PC.... it's on the other side of the house from my office, and is just easier to RDC than walking upstairs when I'm goofing on non-company approved sites.

I've always assumed that, since RDC is just a graphics-redirect, and network communication is being initiated by a PC that's not on the VPN, that my company wouldn't see the remote browsing.... but I figure someone here will know for sure. I'm not surfing for porn or anything like that, but there are plenty of sites that are borderline (or not so borderline) SFW.

Any thoughts are appreciated.

 

[Crusty]

It all depends on how your VPN connection is setup.

Do you have a VPN appliance in your house? Or does your laptop use software to connect?

 

[ColKurtz]

It's a standard consumer NAT router... I'm using a VPN software client.

 

[JackMDS]

You need VPN server at one side.

http://www.ezlan.net/vpn.html

 

[whalen]

So your "home" PC doesn't have a VPN connection back to work...so there is no way that any of the browsing you do on the PC your are RDP'd into can be seen by your company.

Also, since you are remote connecting to a PC in your LAN, that RDP traffic is not going out over the public internet.