http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20420952 en Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:13:24 EDT Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:13:24 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20424980 SoonerAl : Presuming your using the built-in PPTP VPN server on your home Vista or XP PC and the built-in PPTP VPN client on your remote Vista or XP PC when you connect the VPN all client traffic will go through the VPN tunnel to your home server then to the public internet and back.

»theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/V···ser.html

With the MSFT PPTP VPN tunnel this is configured on the client. Make sure you check the Use default gateway on remote network checkbox on the client. See this article for details.

»technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr···117.aspx

If the home PPTP VPN server is running Vista or XP you may need to change a registry setting to enable TCP forwarding.

»support.microsoft.com/kb/315236/en-us

You can test that by going to »www.whatismyip.com before and when connected to the VPN server. Before your connected to the VPN server the reported IP will be the public IP of your client at your remote location. After you connect to the VPN server the reported IP should be your public IP at home. Then you know your connecting to the internet through the home VPN server. You can also use a tracert your.ISP.EmailServer.address command to trace the route to the server. The first reported hop should be to your VPN server.

Beyond that Remote Desktop (as noted by jpaik) or similar program is an option as is using your ISP webmail if its SSL encrypted.

If its not you can setup a Gmail account (which is fully SSL encrypted) to fetch your personal email from your ISP. I do that while traveling. The screen shot details how I have Gmail setup to do that. The nice thing about this is I can access my email securely from anywhere via a web browser and reply with my normal ISP email address.

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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20424980 Sat, 03 May 2008 07:58:02 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20420952 jpaik : If the server where your email is hosted allows for a www-browser view (let's call it webmail) that would be the simplest approach. No vpn required.

If not, you would make the vpn connection, then you could run a remote desktop app on your home pc and the remote pc, (like Radmin) and "take over" your home pc's desktop. Then launch Outlook. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20420952 Fri, 02 May 2008 11:56:41 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20417948 Falcao : I made a seccessfull vpn connection to my home pc from a different location how can i check my email in Microsoft Outlook.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20417948 Thu, 01 May 2008 19:05:49 EDT