Adding School's Server

[dr0be]

I go to Towson University (MD) and last semester I had a basic computer class where we used sharepoint and made websites - was easy as hell. Like every school each student has their own storage drive when logged into a computer and can access it anywhere on campus.

Well I used my sharepoint at home and put in my web site's url for the class in the "open site" and it asked me for my username and password, put them in, and then it made a network drive on my home PC and let me access my school storage drive. Was an awesome accidental discover.

Well I reformatted and just now I tried to put that url in sharepoint again for it to make the network drive connection and now it's saying it can't do it because the network is password protected - even though last semester when I did this a password box just popped up. I tried to manually add the drive in network places and that doesn't work either.

Any ideas? I really liked being able to access my network so I didn't have to email stuff to myself and carry a thumb drive around.

 

[Tarrant64]

It's obviously been "fixed". It was something that should never have been possible in the first place. If you are having problems you should check with the school's administrator to see if it's OK that you even have access, and if so what's the safest way to do so.

Hate to be a dick, but circumventing something like that isn't something you're likely to get much (if any) help on.

 

[dr0be]

Originally posted by: Tarrant64
It's obviously been "fixed". It was something that should never have been possible in the first place. If you are having problems you should check with the school's administrator to see if it's OK that you even have access, and if so what's the safest way to do so.

Hate to be a dick, but circumventing something like that isn't something you're likely to get much (if any) help on.

Think you may have misread the question...

Why would I not be able to connect to MY network drive at school that is entirely empty except for my files that I put in it while on campus? It's not like I'm connecting to the school's entire network and messing around.

 

[Fardringle]

You shouldn't be able to access a sharepoint drive over the Internet like that unless the school admins don't care about security. As Tarrant64 said, they probably discovered the mistake and fixed it. If you really think you should be able to access the share from home, ask the school admins how to connect with the configuration changes that they made this semester.

 

[kevnich2]

Originally posted by: dr0be

Originally posted by: Tarrant64
It's obviously been "fixed". It was something that should never have been possible in the first place. If you are having problems you should check with the school's administrator to see if it's OK that you even have access, and if so what's the safest way to do so.

Hate to be a dick, but circumventing something like that isn't something you're likely to get much (if any) help on.

Think you may have misread the question...

Why would I not be able to connect to MY network drive at school that is entirely empty except for my files that I put in it while on campus? It's not like I'm connecting to the school's entire network and messing around.

For one, it's not YOUR network drive, it is the school's network drive. And yes, you were connecting to the school's network remotely via internet. Sounds like they found the problem (I call this a pretty big problem) and fixed it. Unless it's going through a secure VPN, this should never have been allowed.

 

[somethingsketchy]

If your school is setup so you can FTP into the drive you probably could add/remove files from that, but if your school is not setup for FTP, leave it alone. Last thing you need is to have criminal charges brought against you for illegal access to a protected network, even if you do have a space for your school work. I would talk to the I.T. department for your school and see if there are FTP instructions for your school drive.