How to use a different Ethernet connection

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Published on 2012-03-30T14:41:04Z Indexed on 2012/03/30 17:34 UTC
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I'm running a virtual machine at home which has a VPN connection to our main office, but I also want to connect to a share on another machine at home.

When I check with IPCONFIG I can see two ethernet connections ...

my work VPN ...

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection* 11:
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : xxxx::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxxxxx
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.254.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX

and home local ...

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : lan
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : xxxx::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxxxxx
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.70
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

What's weird is when I've been working before with a plugged-in ethernet cable I've not had any problem getting to the share?

I can PING the other machine, but I can't access the share at ... \\othermachine\c$ I tried 'TRACERT` but that disappears off to the work network and eventually gets back to the local other machine after a few time-outs

Is there anyway to "force" the connection to stay local ?

UPDATE: the VPN is AEP SSL Tunnel

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