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| Thread ID: 75123 | 2006-12-17 04:39:00 | laptop and home network | k8smum (6062) | Press F1 |
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| 507363 | 2006-12-19 00:23:00 | Well, for those of you who could care less (and I mean that in the nicest possible way) the latest is that it IS the home network setup that is creating the problem. I escalated things at work slightly and paid a visit to the IT Manager this morning. As soon as I said we had a network set up at home he said "there's the issue". Jeez. I did say we had a home network when I first raised the question of remote access using laptop a month ago and was told there would be no prob. Now it looks like work has to cough up for another modem, configured by/to suit my work, which I will have to plug into our broadband. Can you get modems with switches that would allow me to switch easily from home to work PC? And what about billing? We have a 10GB/mth plan at present which I suspect would soon be chewed through uploading stuff from work. And I thought all this would be easy! :waughh: K8smum....you will have to be careful with your terminology with the IT manager. When you say to him, you have a home network, he may take that literally, meaning that you have a windows domain network, which I doubt you have. I would imagine you simply have a router which various pc's plug into to receive IP addressing and internet access. You may even have a firewall taylored for your private IP addresses. Having not worked with the (in my opinion bestnetwork operating system of Novell) for 5 yrs, I'm not sure where to start with configuring your laptop to talk to your work network. In my LAN which is part of a national WAN, we use the Telecom PON's network, meaning, with have to go into the router and change username and password in order to authenicate to our own RADIUS (remote authenication dial-up access server) to create our connection. After that, we use Terminal Services. Most remote work sites create VPN tunnels to your servers using the internet. How Novell does this now, I dont know. |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 507364 | 2006-12-19 03:55:00 | [QUOTE=SolMiester;508453 In my LAN which is part of a national WAN, we use the Telecom PON's network, meaning, with have to go into the router and change username and password in order to authenicate to our own RADIUS (remote authenication dial-up access server) to create our connection. After that, we use Terminal Services. .[/QUOTE] SolMeister I got a headache just reading all of that:groan: |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 507365 | 2006-12-19 03:56:00 | In my LAN which is part of a national WAN, we use the Telecom PON's network, meaning, with have to go into the router and change username and password in order to authenicate to our own RADIUS (remote authenication dial-up access server) to create our connection . After that, we use Terminal Services . I got a headache just reading all of that . :badpc: |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 507366 | 2006-12-25 09:48:00 | Hello and Merry Christmas all. Just thought I'd let you know a guy came for a couple of hours Friday arvo, fiddled around with various things, discovered his laptop worked fine with our home setup, thought "Hmmm, that's odd. Maybe it's something to do with your (my) laptop settings". A call to a clever bod on the helpdesk, somewhat further up the ladder than those he/I had been deadling with to that point, and the problem is fixed! I can log into work completely independently of our "network". Yay! Now I can check email/monitor urgent work requests remotely. In the end it was all a pretty simple solution. Thanks all for your help and have a happy and safe New Year. | k8smum (6062) | ||
| 507367 | 2006-12-25 09:52:00 | Hi k8smum, I was wondering how you were getting on with your work/home network loggon. Glad you got it sorted and Merry Christmas. Edit: Just for future reference you wouldn't happen to know what settings he adjusted or changed? |
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