So I’ve been having this problem for about a year now…I want to connect to my work’s VSS database from home, so I can work without remote desktop. I don’t like the idea of remote desktop from home, because when more than 2 people are remote desktop connected to their machines, there isn’t enough upstream bandwidth to support them. Big pain in the ass, but anyway. So my plan was to just connect to vss from home, and work disconnected, using my development environment at home. The problem was, whenever I went to connect to VSS, I would get authentication errors. Now, I was VPN’d into my work net, I was able to browse \\vssserver\vssshare just fine, but VSS would not log on.

So, since I plan to get some work done over the holiday weekend (yeah, I have no life, I know) and don’t want to drive half an hour into work to fix connection issues, I gave the problem more thought. I tried to see if it was a filesystem issue; I set up a vss repo on my dev box at work and connected to it from home. The problem still occurred, so it’s not a filesystem issue; I’m an admin on my box. So I went into vss manager and manually created a user that did not exist on my domain or machine and set it up. Worked fine. So, long story short, just create a new user that isn’t attached to your domain or computer via windows authentication.