First let me say that I am not trying to break through security or violate some kind of company policy.
Here is the problem we have a program here at work that we use, and when you open this program it connects to our contractor via a VPN, we where told that this VPN tunnels (?) to the server. Thats fine I guess, but when it does this it creates a problem for us.
Before you open this program you have access to any network resource you need, network printer, shared drives, e-mail, internet, etc; after you open the program you can no longer access any network resource.
We are trying to setup some kind of way that can have a local file sharing network while this program is on, so we can print and access information from an access database over a network. It is a small group of PC's 10-20 that would need to be set up on this. We dont need internet access or anything just a local file sharing network.
Using ipconfig you can see that once the program is open it changes the DNS suffix, subnet mask, and the IP address. Thus kicking us off our network and linking to theirs.
Since this is a program we use to connect to our contractor and it was provided by the contractor we are not able to make changes to the program.
What we have already tried unsuccessfully is setting up a second NIC card in the PC with a local router, hoping to basically have a peer-to-peer network on the second card. At first it looked like it would was going to work, with program not running the router and the NIC card were communicating, but as soon the program (and thus the VPN) were started the second NIC card and router could no longer see each other. The second NIC cards address stayed the same as before the program was started but you could no longer ping the router.
Are there any ideas on what could be set up so that we could have this local File sharing network when the VPN is up?
Any help would very very appreciate.
Thanks
Here is the problem we have a program here at work that we use, and when you open this program it connects to our contractor via a VPN, we where told that this VPN tunnels (?) to the server. Thats fine I guess, but when it does this it creates a problem for us.
Before you open this program you have access to any network resource you need, network printer, shared drives, e-mail, internet, etc; after you open the program you can no longer access any network resource.
We are trying to setup some kind of way that can have a local file sharing network while this program is on, so we can print and access information from an access database over a network. It is a small group of PC's 10-20 that would need to be set up on this. We dont need internet access or anything just a local file sharing network.
Using ipconfig you can see that once the program is open it changes the DNS suffix, subnet mask, and the IP address. Thus kicking us off our network and linking to theirs.
Since this is a program we use to connect to our contractor and it was provided by the contractor we are not able to make changes to the program.
What we have already tried unsuccessfully is setting up a second NIC card in the PC with a local router, hoping to basically have a peer-to-peer network on the second card. At first it looked like it would was going to work, with program not running the router and the NIC card were communicating, but as soon the program (and thus the VPN) were started the second NIC card and router could no longer see each other. The second NIC cards address stayed the same as before the program was started but you could no longer ping the router.
Are there any ideas on what could be set up so that we could have this local File sharing network when the VPN is up?
Any help would very very appreciate.
Thanks