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by bradq 1 view

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I have a portable on the network with 2 mapped drives. They work fine in the office. I take the portable home and logon to my user profile. I then start the VPN software and am able to ping all devices on the network at the main office. However when trying to access one of the mapped drives, when clicking on them I get "Local Device Name Is Already in Use".

If I disconnect the mapped drive and try to add it again from home, it prompts me for my network username and password. When I try to put them in it tells me I can't use this login because its already been used to logon to the portable. I have to remap using someone elses username and password. Its very frustrating. Any ideas?

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by curacao_dejavu

check out this artickle:
http://tinyurl.com/38noa

I believe the problem liest in the change of environment.
if you are using the same account for both locations that could happen. When you are home and the system doesn't detect the lan domain etc, i loads your information from it's cache assuming that the network is only temporary unavailable.

I think you need 2 accounts on your laptop, one for the networkaccount (domain account) and one with which you can log in locally on the laptop.

they can be the same accounts and passwords.

by doing this all should be solved.

if you need more help, send me an email.
Leopold

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