Unfortunately none of the above meets my case and it gets more puzzling as I go forward. Our office does not have a Domain, just a plain Workgroup. We have two Servers, one 2008 R1 one 2008 R2.<o:p></o:p>
About a year ago, I had a ton of problems when we took the old 2008 R1 server off line and replaced it with a
new 2008R2 took over. Suddenly about half the people could not map network drives any more. They can connect their VPN with no problem but cannot map the shared folders.<o:p></o:p>
Moving forward, as we got more updates from MS (I Guess?) I don't really know but
slowly eventually, everyone got back in except for two or three. these I was
able to prove were caused by a block on port 445 by their ISP's. Apparently 2008
R1 did not need port 445 to map drives Of the few that were left, two paid for a business upgrade
for the internet at their home and that solved the problem. no port 445 block on business service.<o:p></o:p>
The last one though, opted to use her cellphone (an HTC) which also apparently did not
block that port.<o:p></o:p>
In the meantime, I figured why waste a good (but Old) server and I put the 2008 R1 unit back online as a "backup" mirror
to the new server on R2. and sure enough the person on her cellphone was able to connect right away to the old R1 and did not need the cellphone to connect to it any more. She just connected direct to the R1 server/mirror. Same folders, and
they were synced regularly so no problem. <o:p></o:p>
Until now.
After the MS update a week or so ago, she can no longer connect to anything. Worse, during the "good times" she got a new cellphone and it also will not pass a drive mapping (test) it can be used to connect to the internet, thered to her laptop. She can even make the VPN connection. But she cannot map a single drive.
I tend to believe this is once again a port 445 issue but whether it is or not, I have no
idea what to do about it. Last time we went so far as to set up a website and
even mapped her to it as a "network place". But the software that uses the mapped
drives will not work on anything but a REAL mapped drive. I tried at least 10
different odd things none of which worked.<o:p></o:p>
If she could not connect the VPN, I might be a little less concerned but the VPN
clicks through like instantly. Worse, I just had her ship her laptop here for servicing
and I did a complete reload and it worked exactly as it should. Until she got
it back. Still works perfect except no drive mapping.<o:p></o:p>
I am just throwing this out there and hoping that someone else has already found a solution for
something like this. I asked the same questions when this happened a year ago and no one had any ideas then but maybe things have changed
