VPN as well as regular connection

Hi all, I'm a bit of a newbie at this so bare with me... I have a
SMC7004AWBR (802.1b) router my company gave me to communicate my work every
night via wireless (VPN wireless connection) with my company computer (I
don't have a admin status on my computer laptop so I can't mess around with
any of the configuration), and I have my home computer and my XBox connected
by wires. Everything's working fine, but I want to be able to connect my
other personal laptop via wireless. Is this possible since my company
computer uses the wireless VPN? I currently have a orinoco (Lucent tech)
wireless card for my personal laptop, and it won't let me connect at all via
wireless.

I am able to configure the setting via 192.168.2.1 so any help would be
appreciated. Thanks!

"Superlifer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> Hi all, I'm a bit of a newbie at this so bare with me... I have a
> SMC7004AWBR (802.1b) router my company gave me to communicate my work
> every night via wireless (VPN wireless connection) with my company
> computer (I don't have a admin status on my computer laptop so I can't
> mess around with any of the configuration), and I have my home
> computer and my XBox connected by wires. Everything's working fine,
> but I want to be able to connect my other personal laptop via
> wireless. Is this possible since my company computer uses the wireless
> VPN? I currently have a orinoco (Lucent tech) wireless card for my
> personal laptop, and it won't let me connect at all via wireless.
>
> I am able to configure the setting via 192.168.2.1 so any help would
> be appreciated. Thanks!
>
>
>

Yes, a wireless machine can see the wire machines and the wired machines
can see the wireless machine if the machines are using the same Network
protocol such as NWlink NetBIOS or NetBEUI. Since you're not Admin on the
wireless machine, you should match the protocol of the wired machine to
wireless machine. But you can check the wireless card's setup, since
you're not Admin on the wireless machine. You're going to have to ask
someone about the setup of the wireless machine.

Duane

Superlifer <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Hi all, I'm a bit of a newbie at this so bare with me... I have a
> SMC7004AWBR (802.1b) router my company gave me to communicate my work every

Do you have any admin access to the SMC router?
The company may have the wireless router set for MAC authentication,
only allowing your company laptop to connect. Wired wouldn't have that
restriction. Can you ask the company admins? Maybe they would add the
MAC address of your personal laptop to the router.

Normally, you could open a cmd prompt, and look at the output from ipconfig
to find your defautl gateway, which should be the local address of your SMC
router. Then http://that_address would get you to an admin screen. In
your case, the admin screen may be password protected, and if you are only
able to connect via VPN, it may not even show the SMC as the default
gateway.


There are possibilities.
One would be to set the SMC back to factory defaults, which would allow you
to do the setup yourself. Your company VPN would _probably_ still work...
but then you might be in violation of some company whatchacallit.
If they don't even let you have admin rights on your own PC, that suggests
that they wouldn't appreciate your putzing with the router.

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