File server - access "in the fields" - how?

Question

Microsoft

Hello!
There is a traditional file server with a branched structure and a complex ACL.
Each user has several network drives mapped, including a private one.
And recently, many users began to work "in the fields" without any access to the corporate network.
There were 2 problems:
1) how, being offline, to get access to the materials that are on the file server?
2) how after spending 12-48 hours "in the field" and "generating" at the same time a certain number of documents, automatically synchronize them with the file cleaner. This information will be needed by other people as well.
The first thought was in the direction of Work Folders, but they don’t know how to do this. are some kind of under_dropbox and without the right to share sad
How to resolve the situation?

Answer 1

I'm a sysadmin noob, but we have a remote worker. I did this: I
raised DFS and RDP, I just wrote a batch file, when launched, explorer.exe is launched with the desired folder: I
specified the necessary folders and distributed rights to DFS so that other departments could not have access there. Then I went to the RemoteApp Manager, there I specified my batch file and created an RDP file. Now, if a remote worker needs to access a "folder" on the server, then he simply runs this file and connects via rdp.
I really don’t know how many employees you have, but I think that if there are more than 10-15, then it’s better to raise a VPN here.
True, there is a small problem in that the employee sees disks and folders on the left side of the window, but I denied him access there in my rights.