I ran into an issue today where a new laptop could not connect to remote resources even after connecting through a VPN. This laptop has windows 8, and by default windows 8 and as it turns out by default windows 8 does not look for or load resources from the VPN connected network. There is an easy fix for this however:
1.) Click on the internet connection bars in the lower right hand corner of your screen (the 4 bars in the bottom task bar)
2.) Click view connection settings
3.) Click on the VPN connection you want to edit, then hit “edit”
4.) Turn on the top option “find devices and content”.
After you toggle “find devices and content” on then you will be able to discover any shared resources on your remote network 🙂