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aSkywalker
Asked: 2009-07-04 20:30:55 +0800 CST

Sharing a drive on a hosted Win2003 Server

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I have a dedicated windows 2003 server that is hosted in a data center. I would like to map the drive to my pc - and looking for the best way to do that. I could create a VPN, but that seems like overkill? I have created the same login/pw.

Is there a simpler way than creating a VPN?

vpn windows-server-2003 file-sharing

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  1. Best Answer

    Here's an ingenious little hack to do a "drive mapping" over an SSH tunnel. It doesn't scale well for multiple remote hosts, but if you're looking at "mapping a drive" to a single remote host and have SSH access into your remote network it might do what you need:

    Map a Network drive (net use) over SSH

    Otherwise, I'd recommend using a VPN. If you're not partial to the Microsoft VPN technologies, think about using OpenVPN (http://www.openvpn.org). Some helpful links for OpenVPN:

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  2. Are you using Terminal Services to connect to your server? If so you can enable local drive mapping then from the TS session on the server you can see the drive on your PC.

    JR

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  3. i would say hamachi, install as a service and at log on. then you can use unc path \ip_of_hamachi_machine or \netbios_name_chosen_hamachi_install

    i would say a secure approach is better than just having pptp or something that can be comprimised. gd

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  4. You could use webfolders, If I remember correctly, you can map using "net use" to an http:// address. I don't think it works out of the box with https, but i've read that stunnel is a suggested work around.

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