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Old 05-10-2011, 11:33 AM
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Originally Posted by kknudson View Post
I still think you don't quite understand something, the VPN device/router whatever creates the doorway for YOUR PC to connect to a DEVICE on the other side. It does not transfer network traffic from the other side through the tunnel to your PC.
You need to connect to something there, a device, a PC something to see the local traffic. (There may be specialized VPN / routers that do this, I've never seen on, but it will not be your normal VPN/Router.
Yes, this could very well be a source of confusion for me. From what I had read, I had assumed that the VPN router would effectively put my computer on the remote network.

The thing that made me think I could do this was that my wife's work VPN operates in this way. When she connects to her office from home, we're still working on our home PC, but have access to all of her office's network resources. It doesn't appear as if we connect to a specific device in her office - we're just somehow on her office's network from home. But I don't know what equipment exists in her office to make this all happen.

Thanks for having the patience to explain things to me!
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