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Issues accessing Middfiles from VPN

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Issues Accessing Middfiles from VPN

Users complain of slowness browsing and opening files from Middfiles over VPN

 

 

Add user to VPNMTU group, and have user "refresh connection" on global protect app.

MacOS specific recommendations:

change connection string to smb://middfiles.middlebury.edu  instead of cifs://

If connection issues still exists, make changes to turn off multichannel smb:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212277
Also make this change to SMB browsing:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208209

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Article ID: 286
Created
Thu 3/31/22 10:21 AM
Modified
Thu 3/16/23 11:58 AM

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