Connecting to shared folder/drive over VPN?

[(PeteCresswell)]

On my PC at work, I created a share for my entire C drive.

Now I'm at home.

Somebody else is using my PC at work.

I'd like to connect to that C drive, pull down some files, work on them locally,
and then copy them back up to my PC at work - all while the other person is
logged on and working at the work PC.

I can get as far as trying to make the connection, but then it prompts me for a
UserID/Password.

I tried specifying my work userID, but it keeps appending the name of my home PC
to the ID. e.g. My home PC's name is "Asus". My work PC's name is
pCresswell-02. My LAN ID at work is pCresswell. When I specify pCresswell
over the VPN connection, it gets changed to \\Asus\pCresswell.

I tried specifying \\pCresswell-02\pCresswell, but it doesn't seem tb buying it
- keeps prompting me for the UserID/PW.

All of the above, I tried when pCresswell was logged on to the PC in question.

Now I want to do it when jSmith is logged on to that PC.

Since I couldn't do it in the first case, I don't want to call this guy up and
walk him through creating a share under his ID until I have some expectation
that it will work.


What's missing? Seems like the critical part is being able to tell the
UserID/PW prompt that the id being specified is on the remote LAN and not my
home PC.... but how? And if not, what else am I missing?

 

[Seahawk60B]

On my PC at work, I created a share for my entire C drive.

Now I'm at home.

Somebody else is using my PC at work.

I'd like to connect to that C drive, pull down some files, work on them locally,
and then copy them back up to my PC at work - all while the other person is
logged on and working at the work PC.

I can get as far as trying to make the connection, but then it prompts me for a
UserID/Password.

I tried specifying my work userID, but it keeps appending the name of my home PC
to the ID. e.g. My home PC's name is "Asus". My work PC's name is
pCresswell-02. My LAN ID at work is pCresswell. When I specify pCresswell
over the VPN connection, it gets changed to \\Asus\pCresswell.

I tried specifying \\pCresswell-02\pCresswell, but it doesn't seem tb buying it
- keeps prompting me for the UserID/PW.

All of the above, I tried when pCresswell was logged on to the PC in question.

Now I want to do it when jSmith is logged on to that PC.

Since I couldn't do it in the first case, I don't want to call this guy up and
walk him through creating a share under his ID until I have some expectation
that it will work.

What's missing? Seems like the critical part is being able to tell the
UserID/PW prompt that the id being specified is on the remote LAN and not my
home PC.... but how? And if not, what else am I missing?

The format needs to be DOMAIN\UserID with your work password

 

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per Seahawk60B:

The format needs to be DOMAIN\UserID with your work password

I tried XXX-DOMAIN-01/pCresswell - which I'm pretty sure is the correct domain
name and am 100% sure is my correct username; but got "The specified username
is invalid".

Time for me to rethink my assumption on the domain name?

 

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per (PeteCresswell):

I tried XXX-DOMAIN-01/pCresswell - which I'm pretty sure is the correct domain
name and am 100% sure is my correct username; but got "The specified username
is invalid".

Time for me to rethink my assumption on the domain name?

Oops... it was syntax with the slashes.

It's gotta be XXX-DOMAIN-1\pCresswell.

Forward slash was doing me in.

 

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per Seahawk60B:

The format needs to be DOMAIN\UserID with your work password

And I neglected to say "Thanks".... so...

Thanks!!!