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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!

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  • Do you want to mount that share in a linux-client or windows-client?
    – wullxz
    May 19, 2011 at 23:39
  • Mount or map? If you want to map it to a drive letter, you can use the "net use" command
    – Nixphoe
    May 20, 2011 at 0:13

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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

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  • The Linux link is dead.
    – happyhardik
    Apr 26, 2016 at 10:59
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    I added a link to a cached version from the good ol' web archive ;)
    – wullxz
    Apr 26, 2016 at 11:08

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