How to Access Shareable Drives of the Domain Environment from the Work-group or Personal Computers - FortiClient

There is more possible reason to you din't have the company Laptop, Company Laptop was out of battery, Laptop din't working, you forget to bring it home or company laptop was unexpectedly removed from the Domain. In that situation your intimidate boss required the special document at the company file server to re edit and if you have your own personal computer, there is much easier way to do it.

If your company use the Fortinet Firewall, you can download the "FortiClient" VPN from their official site. If not you can download the required VPN client software according to your company Firewall and installed it. If you din't know the settings of the VPN client software, you can contact your IT support.

• Download and install the VPN Client software.
• Connect to the VPN using your company login credentials. (Make sure before you have access to the company VPN)
• Windows+R
• Type your file server name or a IP address and click on the "OK". Please follow the below format,
• \\FileServer (If you know the name)
• \\199.99.9.9 (If you know the IP address)

• Then you will be prompt the login windows.
• User name: YourDoman\YourUserName (Ford.com\SamanthaB)
• Password: Company login password 
• Click on the "OK"

If you follow the above instruction, you can successfully access to the your file servers.