Sharing / Mapping network folder

[C.J]

Google is killing me with it's shitty results on this.

We have a network with 6 machines, one of which has our 'shared' data on, with a mapped drive to access.

Now, what I want to do is be able to access that mapped drive / folder from outside the office (home / laptop etc) So I don't always need to be in the office when accessing these files, or anyone else in the company for that matter.

Help?

 

[DanCup]

VPN Access

Alternatively quite a few years back we did this, but using Serv-U on the PC with the data to share, so it acts as Server and creating user accounts, then connecting to it using FTP with one of the set user accounts.

 

[C.J]

Any links / guides as I've tried setting up a VPN through XP's network options with no luck.

 

[PinkoCommie]

http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_vpn_server.htm

That might be of some help.

You WILL need to make a static NAT from your firewall to the server.

 

[C.J]

Thanks.

Ok, I've set up a few remote access accounts using VPN (XP Remote connection) and that works fine for the remote access to the server where the content is stored.

But how do I map a drive / folder so I can work on the files locally.

E.g.

Spreadsheet on Office machine (Running Server 2003)
I'm on laptop at home (running XP / Vista)
I need the spreadsheet on my laptop, so I log into the office machine remotely

How can I copy that file, onto my PC, and back again if needed?

 

[PinkoCommie]

try the following.

Got Start - Run
Type \\servername click OK

If that doesn't work, try using \\server_ip_address

That should bring up the list of shares.

If \\servername does work, then your already mapped drives should work fine.

I would think that this will be OK if you are assigning your VPN IP's with DHCP and that your server already does DHCP for your network.