Connecting Network Shares Remotely

I map network shares via login script while on the network. How do I access
network shares when I am remote connected via VPN?

"tkutil" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I map network shares via login script while on the network. How do I access
> network shares when I am remote connected via VPN?

Making a VPN connection is not a login operation, so login scripts won't
run.

If you want the script to run when you connect you will need to use some
other event to trigger the script to run. You may need to have the script on
the client because the client may not be able to find a script on the server
at connection time.

I understand. VPN just gives me the connection. I'm trying to find out how
people handle connecting to shares once connected remotely. We use Novell now
and run the Novell login after connecting via VPN, which makes the
connections to the Novell shares. What is the windows equivalent?

"Bill Grant" wrote:

>
> "tkutil" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:1EA82447-AF42-4556-A0F4-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I map network shares via login script while on the network. How do I access
> > network shares when I am remote connected via VPN?
>
> Making a VPN connection is not a login operation, so login scripts won't
> run.
>
> If you want the script to run when you connect you will need to use some
> other event to trigger the script to run. You may need to have the script on
> the client because the client may not be able to find a script on the server
> at connection time.
>
>

>I map network shares via login script while on the network.
> How do I access network shares when I am remote connected
> via VPN?

One "usual" problem with this scenario is local LAN name resolution. Can you
map the shares manually after connecting using the IP rather than the local
hostname?

The VPN server should be set to pass out the exact same DNS servers that
your local LAN uses to ensure local LAN name resolution.

You'll probably have to trigger the drive mapping scripts manually from the
client. Either by manually starting them on the remote (i.e mapdrives.bat)
or copying them to the client and running them after VPN connect (i.e.
mapdrives.bat).

Often you do have to provide name resolution manually to the VPN server
itself on the local client (using the host file on the client is an easy
way) to allow share mapping to a share on the VPN server itself (since the
VPN server itself has a public IP address and Internet FQDN and you can't
use that to map to a share).

-Frank

This really depends on your VPN solution. For example, if I'm using Windows
2003 RRAS, I can use CMAK to create a deployable VPN connectoid that
contains pre/post actions that check the health of a workstation, initiate a
login script, force gpos to run, force update of antivirus signatures, .etc.

Perhaps if you mention what the site went with for its VPN solution, perhaps
ideas/solutions can be suggested other than gee, can your users access the
\\domain\netlogon share and run the logon script manually.

/neo


"tkutil" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I map network shares via login script while on the network. How do I access
> network shares when I am remote connected via VPN?