I have a remote Windows 2008 Server (hosted on Rackspace Cloud). I would like to have multiple VPN clients to connect and mount a shared drive.
I was able to set up the VPN, but I can't seem to figure out how to mount the shares. Also, since I am VPNing into a single machine (not really on a network), should I configure my VPN in a different way?
Thanks!
Best Answer
If you can access your server with an IP, you should be able to connect/mount a share if your firewalls are configured properly.
On Windows you can just klick "Map Network Drive" at the "Computer", enter your servers IP-Address and the sharename like this: \\server-ip-address\share
On Linux, you can use mount, but you need additional packages (cifs-mount and samba-client). Then you can mount your share with
mount -t cifs -o user //192.168.0.1/share /mount/point. A better and complete explanation for this can be found here (works for other distributions like debian too)Edit:
As the link is dead, here is a link to a cached version at the web archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20130209134816/http://opensuse.swerdna.org/susesambacifs.html