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Cannot access mapped drives over VPN

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by rcrathern

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Hi, i would really appreciate some help on this problem.
I need to set up a VPN from Portugal to UK and access files on a WinXP Pro PC. I have setup the tunnel on Netgear DGFV338 router on the windows workgroup LAN and Netgear Prosafe client on remote WinXP laptop. In the UK the VPN connects OK and I can map the drives on the remote PC on the LAN.
However when the same laptop is used in Portugal the VPN still connects, but the drives are no longer accessible. I can ping the PC and I have set up a hosts file to resolve the names, but still no drives

Any ideas

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by Former member

Accessing Mapped drives over VPN.

Map the drive with the fully qualified domain name of the server.
If you map drives via the 'Map Network Drives' command in 'Computer' then you have to add the domain suffixes manually when you map the drive. So the format of the mapped drive path should look like this: '\\server1.contoso.com\fileshares\staff' instead of the default map
for the same share that looks like this: '\\server1\fileshares\staff'. You
have to adjust this in the path window when you map the drive.

Please post back if you have any more problems or questions.

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