Just in case I can prevent for one other person the hours of frustration I suffered figuring this out this post will be worth it. The economy can thank me later.
For the past month I haven’t been able to connect to any of my share drives at work using VPN from home. The weird thing is that using VPN I could connect to all the other internal things through my web browser. Neither IT dept nor I could figure out why. I had to settle for remote terminal, which works but it’s a workaround.
Then when I bought a new WLAN router for my home I couldn’t map to the built-in USB share sitting in the other room. I could, again, connect through the browser but could not map to it. Frustrating.
After a weekend of fretting and digging through tech forums I finally found the solution to my problem. It turns out that the Microsoft Workstation service, whatever it does, had somehow been uninstalled. I ran services.msc and confirmed this. I then reinstalled it by going to Network Connections, opening the properties under Local Area Network (LAN), clicked “install,” and selected to install “Client for Microsoft Networks.” Ta-da, it worked. I’m now able to map to my shares. The fix was given here:
http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=844187
I hate networking. I really, really do.
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