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How to map a FTP adress to a driveletter in VB6

When I use this snippet wich I got from a other qst, this will work fine on a internal IP adres on my Nas driev, but how to use this when I ' am outside,
and the Nas drive has a good working FTP connection
This is snippet for inside the office

Private Sub cmdMAP_Click()
Dim WN
DL = "S:"
rp = "\\192.168.2.254\TOTALVERS"
Set WN = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
WN.MapNetworkDrive DL, rp
End Sub"

but when I do eg.
rp = "ftp://jack@xx.xx.xx.x./TOTALVERS"
or
rp = "ftp://jack@xx.xx.xx.x./"

I get error networkadress not supported

When I use explorer , making a new network connection it will work,
Thus the qst is , is it possible to make a connection to FTP this way, and then add a Drive letter to it?

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Antagony1960

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jack niekerk

ASKER

Yes we have for 1 location VPN, but some other users are not allowed to build a VPN connection, or can't ( mobile e.g.)
So we did buy as a substitute WEBDRIVE, problem with this is, that is that it will not refresh allways the mapped drive,
Then I tried with shelled commandline in WEBDRIVE to disconnect and reconnect, but the loop time for that is to long

Antagony1960

Ah, well if WebDrive isn't working for you I'm not sure what will. I've never used it myself, but a friend of mine uses--and speaks very highly of--the LogMeIn Hamachi VPN manager. Perhaps you could use something like that to setup limited and secure VPN accounts.

https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi/vpn.asp

jack niekerk

ASKER

OK will try that out

jack niekerk

ASKER

it looks like we must give everybody still a vpn capable router/modem