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Vista Business Drive Mapping

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by acgphx 2 views

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I have a remote laptop running vista business. Its far enough away that seeing it in the near future is pretty unlikely.

I've setup the end user account to be able to VPN into the network in order to restore a mapping to their company folder for data retrieval.

The end user can connect to the VPN using her credentials reliably and without issue. The trouble I'm having is that the mapped drive does not become available even after the VPN connection is established. creating a new VPN session and re-mapping the drive do not fix the problem. It simply will not connect to the shared folder.

I've used systems on hand to login via wireless using the end users credentials. I had no trouble mapping the company folder.

It should be noted that on that site there are other laptops (1 other vista and 2 XP) that connect and map the drive as needed without trouble.

Has anyone seen this issue? If so how did you manage to get around it?

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by acgphx

Yes, Network Discovery is enabled. The issue seems to be confined to their remote location. When I initially setup the system (before it was shipped to the site) the VPN & Mapping worked perfectly.

by tmalo627

Is anyone else there having the same problem? Are there any firewall or GPO settings that might be inhibiting this connection?

by acgphx

Yes, others are able to work normally from the same site. I initally thought a firewall or some filtering at the site mode could be the culprit but others can work fine.

This is an annoying issue.

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