Windows shared drive over internet

You should consider other alternatives for accessing those folders. For example, the VPN. It is the safest option.

Please let me know if you need any further assistance. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to JoseBeltre's post on September 23, You don't have to edit modem or nas by the moment. What is your VPN service? Many companies use vpn over a firewall appliance. Several users have reported this problem. Any ideas? Do I need to run a special script to destroy and recreate drive mappings once VPN connects?

Sounds like your email domain and your AD domains are not matched and it sounds like the user signs into VPN with email address.

When a user signs into VPN, the username used there will be used to sign in on any remote drives. It's a messy quirk. I tend to see most mapped drive issues over VPN when there's a DNS issue or the users haven't restarted their laptop after joining a different network.

But sounds like DNS is working ok, so when the users take their laptop home, do they just shut the lid or do they click start, shutdown? To get around this I went into the properties of the software by right-clicking on the icon, then I set the program to operate in compatibility mode and run as Administrator.

The problems went away immediately. You can also try a different VPN client like Viscosity which I have had excellent luck with and no tampering with settings is required. Hi Phill Let me try to answer in way a security person would understand.

When a user is in trusted network wan , his workstation can communicate to all domain controllers in your domain. One of them will be his logon server and he will get all his policies during login process. But when he is in untrusted network by default he has no direct communication to the domain, Since you are not exposing your internal domain controller to the internet.

User login into the workstation with cached credentials. Since these server are general not exposed to internet. Easy fix would be to Check ask the user to double click map drive after vpn connection. I would think the easy fix is to stop using the old school method of mapped drives and use UNC shortcuts, which can be placed on the desktop or start menu.

I always use the FQDN and have reconnect ticked, once the user logs in with their cached credentials and connects to the VPN, it is common for the drives to still have the red X next to them, they just ignore that and click on it anyway and voila. You might want to check to see if the drives are set to update instead of replace. Are the drives mapped to a local office? Where do you have the VPN hosted at? I ask, because we had an issue where our remote users were accessing the VPN from the home office and then trying to access a drive from their local office.

It was causing an issue similar to what you are talking about. We remapped the drives to our home office and the issue went away. Makes sense. Again, I'm not a Windows guy here but I think the auto-reconnect when double-clicking on the mapped drive is failing because the laptop has cached user domainname.

Over time, it can actually be much cheaper to buy a local file server, because your employees become a lot more productive in most cases. Pings are going fine from Location B to all different locations. Most of them take around 30ms time. That is very true, but so you think by adding more bandwidth to the location B internet would make any difference? By getting 25 meg of internet speed at location B if it is able to access excel file in sec then it will be good improvement as well. Remote desktop terminal server is also a very good option as we take backup of the file server daily.

As I said I really want to try something in a smaller budget than moving forward with buying a entire new server. While adding more bandwidth at Location B certainly would not hurt, I'm not positive that it will make that much difference.

Maybe they can bump up your speed temporarily, and if the employees notice a big improvement, you can start paying for it monthly. While that's considered "high speed", it still takes a quite a long time to open folders and files on the server. So based on my experience, even a high speed connection gets bogged down when you're going through a VPN. A lot of this is dependent on your exact network setup. If the VPN connection and the server where you're trying to access files is in the same physical office, it may be a bit quicker.

But the point being, your mileage may vary. I don't think anyone could guarantee that your file access speeds over VPN will improve by upgrading the internet speed at location B, but it's probably worth a shot if you're on a tight budget. Those are some really good suggestions. I will try to ask my ISP for 25Meg trial and see if that's make any difference. I second on you about it's not speed of the internet but the hops.

Thanks a lot for all your suggestions. I do really appreciate it. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Windows Client. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads.