Re: VFP data and VPN

Author: Paul Hill

Posted: 2012-07-30 at 05:30:33

Hi Al,

Just share the folder on the remote machine and map a drive letter

from your machine to the share.

Easiest from the command prompt:

net use z: \\192.168.1.99\sharedfolder

Use an IP address as in my experience computer names do not always

resolve over a VPN.

It might be a little slow!

On 30 July 2012 11:21, Allen <profox@gatwicksoftware.com> wrote:

> Hi gang

> I'm a bit of a novice on VPN. I connect to a VPN and then run remote

> connection so I become that machine. However I need to look at data on that

> machine with FoxPro and alter it. Is this possible? In other words I was to

> connect to a directory on the VPN'd machine to use that directory as if it

> was on my own.

> Al

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Paul

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