keithmoran

Hey... I was having this same problem. I needed to connect to my computer at my desk. If I went to a conference room (new ip address) and recieved an IP on a different subnet, my drive maps would not work. I had a program that I had to demo that mapped a drive back to my computer at my desk to use a resourse on that computer. If I turn off Windows Firewall on the machine I am trying to connect to (this was a Vista machine), then I can map the drive if I am on a different subnet. Instead of turning off Windows Firewall though, if I check "Netlogon Service" on the exceptions tab, then I can still map drives across subnets. My guess is that Windows Firewall suspects an "attack" since a request is being made from the "outside" (different subnet). I wonder if it is possible to fine tune the exception a bit better to include a series of ip address instead of just turning it on/off.... or if maybe entering the IP address series in the Internet Explorer trusted site list would help. Not sure. Anyone? If this workaround works for you, let me know if there are more "secure ways" to make the drive mapping available without opening things up to anyone.