I've setup an Ec2 instance of Windows server 2016 on AWS.
I can map to a shared drive on this instance from my home (desktop, and laptop) and mobile device. I use domain from home, and IP on mobile.
I bring my laptop to the office and am unable to map to the drive. I have access to RDP still, but no SMB. I believe this is blocked from the ISP.
I tried connecting from home, while connected to a different location on ExpressVPN, and was unable to connect.
The instance hosts software used by the company. There is a DB on the instance and the software on the workstations/endpoints is able to connect to the DB on the instance.
I read I should switch the SMB port to 80. I opened some ports, but still can't connect.
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I created a simple EC2 instance (windows 2016), and without security group (all traffic allowed), and got public IP and DNS (created by the VPC).
Then I downloaded the rdp file from the EC2 in order to remote connect to the EC2, and got "lost connection to the RDP server...".
I use my linux (fedora) machine, and use remmina to remote connect.
I'm new with AWS, am I missing something that I need to do before I connect?
P.S. I don't have IAM role, and also I didn't use the .pem file I downloaded - I don't know if it's related.
In one of our client scenario each laptop running a client software has to have a mapped S:\ drive.
Earlier they would map this S:\ drive to a drive in a Server on the same network like \\Server-name\$D
Now they are planning to move this server to EC2 in AWS. Is it possible to map the drive from EC2 server in local machine?
Local machine is in aclient network connected to AWS via VPN and DirectConnect.
In my research online (I am trying to map an Amazon EC2 drive to a local machine), I came to know that you can enable a VPN on EC2 server to make this happen. But I am looking for a inbuilt windows option as this is a as-is migration to AWS.
I want to connect an external Wi-Fi adapter from my local PC to a Windows Server in AWS.
Is it possible?
It appears you are wanting to make your local wifi (eg at home or in the office) accessible to an Amazon EC2 Windows instance.
This is not a capability provided by AWS.
You might be able to find a software product that can extend a USB device or a network connection between two computers across the Internet. For example, I have seen people use a virtual serial port to allow a "dongle" to be connected to a virtual computer. However, any such solution is something you would configure in the Windows operating system and your own computer. It would not have anything specific to do with Amazon EC2.
We have a very difficult problem here, we have a Windows Server 2019 Base x64 on Amazon EC2, connected through RDP and setup-ed forest and activated AD DS , also activated DNS. But whenever we try to connect we are not allowed to.
We have opened all the relevant ports on inbound traffic rules.
We have added users.
We have tried searching internet and various tutorials.
In Server Manager=:
Added the public ipv4 address to our ipv4 settings of the adapter.
Went to the computer setting in computer domain entered the domain but no fun.
Disabled the firewall in server manager.
We want to connect our clients on different network to connect to the server hosted else-where on AWS.
We are really new into this can some one guide through this?
Please make sure there is network connectivity between your client and you DC which is set up on EC-2 Instance.
[1] In case your clients are on AWS (meaning different EC-2 Instances), and in a different network, you need to create VPC peering or use Transit Gateway, so that it has proper network connectivity.
[2] In case your clients are not on AWS, and in an On-prem Environment, you need to have a VPN connection between your client and your DC.
So in Summary, you need to have network connectivity between your client and DC so that clients can join your Domain.
What do you mean whenever we try to connect we are not allowed to?
What are you trying to connect to, the Windows EC2 instance?
Are you saying that the instance is joined to AWS Directory Service domain but you can't connect to the instance using one of the users in your AWS directory?
Edit: This should have been a comment but couldn't post comments at the time of answering.
So I have an Amazon EC2 Free Tier Instance with Debian Jessie. There's a software running that generates an html file I'd like to access remotely.
When connected to the instance via SSH, I can remotely open a web browser and go to 127.0.0.1:8083/index.html?PARAMETER1=...&PARAMETER2=...
Now doing this is very tedious because the browser is slow. I'd like to be able to access to this file directly using the web browser in my local machine.
How do I do this? I tried replacing 127.0.0.1 with the Public IPv4 but it won't work. Do I have to open the port?
Thanks.
You would need to open port 8083 using the security groups inbound rules for the ec2 instance. Then use the public IP to access the file.