Can't see Win10 machine on LAN when it's connected to VPN

[mrfatboy]

Hello,

I have two PC's. One is a Win7 and the other is a Win10. Both are connecting to Torguard VPN correctly using the the torguard client v3.87.0.

When the win 7 computer is connected to the the VPN all other computers on my LAN can see it and normal networking and sharing exists. It shows a LAN ip of 192.168.1.103 while it's VPN IP is 10.XX.0.XX.

When the win 10 computer is connected to the the VPN all other computers on my LAN CANNOT see it. The computer drops off my LAN. It shows a LAN ip of 10.XX.0.XX and also the VPN IP is 10.XX.0.XX.

However, when the win 10 machine is connected to the VPN I can connect to it by using the the hard coded IP of 192.168.103.

Basically on the win 7 machine the computer name \Acer1 resolves to the LAN IP of 192.168.1.103 when connected to the VPN.

The win 10 machine the computer name \Acer2 resolves to the LAN IP of 10.xx.0.xx when connected to the VPN thus my other computers on my LAN can't see it.

I can ping the win10 machine while it's connected to the VPN using it's short netbios name and it does resolve the ip correctly to 192.168.103.

What is the problem with the Win 10 machine? Is it a configuration issue? Win10 issue? Is there a solution?

Thanks much

 

[VirtualLarry]

Search "VPN split tunneling". That should answer your questions.

 

[mrfatboy]

They only see the VPN IP addressThanks for the reply. I have another bit of info that just came to light.

It seems that the only computers that can't see the windows 10 machine (while it's connected to the vpn) are Apple products. IMac and AppleTV specifically. They only see the VPN IP address.

My other windows computers can see the win10 machine when it's on the vpn.

Thoughts?

 

[kjboughton]

LAN and VPN segments must be different IP subnets. Otherwise routing collisions. That it worked for Win7 system is a fluke.