Hey everyone,
This might be a really stupid question. I have a PowerMac with Leopard server, I'm about to bring to my office, just waiting for my static IP. Right now it's at my home on my local network, so I can access shared folders, web server and so on.
Here's my question, I want to use VPN once I get my static IP. How though does the system know what to restrict to VPN traffic versus non? Like right now, lets say for example I'm using Apple Remote Desktop. If I'm not firewalled, I assume from home I could just say connect to IP, type in the static IP address and control the server. What though changes that to say only control the server when someone is VPN'd in versus not? Is that just a setting to say only allow connections from local network?
Same with say file sharing. If I go on XP and type \\ipaddress it brings up shared folders. I assume doing \\staticip would do the same? Or no? If it does, what says no only do that when behind VPN? Or is everything auto blocked meaning \\staticip would do nothing?
This might be a really stupid question. I have a PowerMac with Leopard server, I'm about to bring to my office, just waiting for my static IP. Right now it's at my home on my local network, so I can access shared folders, web server and so on.
Here's my question, I want to use VPN once I get my static IP. How though does the system know what to restrict to VPN traffic versus non? Like right now, lets say for example I'm using Apple Remote Desktop. If I'm not firewalled, I assume from home I could just say connect to IP, type in the static IP address and control the server. What though changes that to say only control the server when someone is VPN'd in versus not? Is that just a setting to say only allow connections from local network?
Same with say file sharing. If I go on XP and type \\ipaddress it brings up shared folders. I assume doing \\staticip would do the same? Or no? If it does, what says no only do that when behind VPN? Or is everything auto blocked meaning \\staticip would do nothing?