"My Computer" freezes when i click one of the network drives

damean

Hello all,

Basically i am connecting to the OpenVPN through a vodafone dongle, everybody else seems to have this working fine, but i came across one laptop that always freezes clicking on the network drives when connecting like this.

Emails and everything else works. just using the actual network drives seems to be the problem, has anybody else had this problem or know why this would freeze the window?

Thanks

janjust

could be anything - and windows file shares are notorious for freezing up if there is *anything* wrong with the network. What do the openvpn logs show? is there an MTU issue? what does 'net use' report on the client?

damean

Well the person who is using the laptop is not here today, i wouldn't have thought it would be a network issue, as other people doing the same task can still access the drives,

as soon as he brings the laptop back ill run OpenVPN, check the log and stuff

Mimiko

It's not regular for windows to freeze the whole system when clicking on network drives. If the network drive is not accesible or network is slow, freezes only the part where the icon is present. i.e. if icon is on desktop - desktop will freeze, but not taskbar. I will sugest not use windows shortcuts in this case but batch files with:

start \\network_computer_name_or_fqdn\share_name

Also, avoid using FQDN other tunnel.