got a VPN question

[Dustin_m]

so my roommate set up a VPN for our server at home. now when i am at school and i log onto it, it connects, but i don't know how to pull up the explorer window to look at the files on the server. does anyone know how to do that?

 

[posol]

type in: \\yourmachinename

thats the name in your computer properties

note, a folder must be shared and have rights for you to look at for "Everyone" or set up the proper crudentials.

 

[Dustin_m]

well my roommate got me on there when he was showing me all the stuff, i just can't remember. he's always out of town for work, so i never get to ask and find out.

so your saying to type on the server name in the address bar?

 

[posol]

yeah, or start->run-> \\machinename\share

 

[TurboMirage]

\\machinename\c$ will get you the C drive, as long as you are an "administrator" on that machine, through your VPN login.

you can do the same for any of the drives on that machine, d$ e$

 

[ScrapinSi]

That is only if the drives are shared, and shared as c$. You can be an admin all you want, but if the drives aren't shared you are SOL. Microsoft wasn't THAT stupid.

 

[TurboMirage]

you dont need them to be shared.

 

[ScrapinSi]

If you have a VPN Setup so that you can access anything on any PC on the VPN as long as you have admin rights, then you have something setup SERIOUSLY wrong.

 

[TurboMirage]

if you're domain admin, and cant, then you may as well be another vanilla user.