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Piers Karsenbarg
Asked: 2013-02-08 07:02:34 +0800 CST

Why can I not access git on a Windows share over VPN?

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I'm currently connected to a VPN, but the machine I'm on is not connected to the Windows domain that the rest of the network is on.

On that network is a Windows 2008R2 server that I am an admin on. Files on that server can be accessed through Explorer by going \\server.fqdn\share.

There is a share on that server called git (can you tell where I'm going yet?). Through Explorer I can go \\server.fqdn\git\website.git and see the contents of that folder.

However, I would like to access a git repo in that folder. I know that I can add a remote as //server.fqdn/git/website.git but I keep getting an error saying I do not have permission.

I used to get past this error by opening up Windows Explorer, going to \\server.fqdn\git and entering my username and password, however this doesn't seem to be working anymore.

Any thoughts?

windows-server-2008

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Rather than connecting using just my username and password, I used domain\username and password (despite being told not to include the domain).

    Works fine now.

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