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W11 & W10 Pro - how to map a network drive while on VPN
Hello, Configuring a SOHO home network for myself. I have a NAS that I need to be able to access remotely through a VPN. I am able to use Wireguard VPN, it connects to the router, I am able to pin...
I recently mapped a VPN-reachable network location to a drive letter on my Windows 11 machine. A couple potentially unintuitive steps I had to go through were: 1) getting the local IP address of the target machine (e.g. "192.168.1.100") by using "ipconfig /all" on another machine that already had access to it on the same LAN, and 2) modifying the hosts file on my own machine so that my usual domain name for the target (e.g. "//MyFileServer") is translated to its local IP address. My use case was to give myself access to my company's file server from my home PC when connected by VPN.