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Asked: 2026-05-11T14:11:39+00:00

I’m a programmer dammit, I should be allowed to ask these kinds of IT

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I’m a programmer dammit, I should be allowed to ask these kinds of IT questions! 🙂

Anyway the problem is as follows. I’m writing an automatic build script to deploy code to a live windows 2003 server. To get access to the server I enabled the VPN role, and I can connect to it remotely from my dev machine using a username and password I set up on the server from the network connections screen.

I set up a share on that machine and gave full share+security permissions to the account I am using to connect. Once connected, I would have thought I would be able to see the share. In fact I can’t even see the computer even though the VPN is connected (if i type ‘\IPADDRESS\’ into the run box nothing comes up).

Am I missing an essential step here?

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  1. It looks to me like you can’t connect to a network share from inside the same session that you esatblished the VPN connection in. I now manually open the VPN connection, then kick off the build scripts

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