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Access Denied when opening shares via VPN
Revisiting an old outstanding issue: On a AD environment, users can access shares no problem. When they use a VPN, they can't access the ReadyNAS shares. They can access Windows-based shares on the V...
I suspect your VPN is not routing SMB1, which is what your old NAS uses. For security reasons, that may not be something you want to change.
Thanks for the advice, I have a feeling the other windows file shares use SMB1 as well, since they are running on older OS (Windows 2003). Is there any other method of sharing the files if this is the cause?
heatproofsean wrote:
I have a feeling the other windows file shares use SMB1 as well, since they are running on older OS (Windows 2003).
Windows 2003 does use SMB 1 (SMBv2 was introduced with Vista). So if those shares are accessible over the VPN, then the VPN isn't the cause of your problem.
Have you tried accessing via the IP address instead of name? Some of us have problems with Win10 when using the NAS name. I'm not sure why it would be different on VPN than local, but it's worth a try.
Are you sure somebody didn't put exceptions in for the Windows 2003 servers and forgot about the NAS?
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