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Firewall workaround?

I have a windows 10 work laptop that has a firewall blocking access to local ip addresses.  I don’t have admin rights on this computer.  This means I am unable to access an owncloud server (running from raspberry pi) on my home network when using this laptop.  As an example the following is blocked:

192.168.1.6/owncloud/index.php

As a workaround I can substitute the local ip address (192.168.1.6) with my external ip address and access my server – example:

58.6.9.70/owncloud/index.php  (not my real external ip!)
   
However, I am not keen on this because it means I have to be connected to the internet just to use the server.  Is there any workaround that will trick the firewall into thinking that I am accessing an external ip address, so that I can connected to the server on my home network and not through the internet? 

Not sure what is involved with this, but if it makes it easier I can buy new hardware etc.
Is your work laptop using a VPN (which would be my guess)?


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