Cannot make my Home folder available offline!

[Sam]

On Win2K server, I have a share "USERS" and all users'
personal folder are underneath it. I am mapping it to
drive letter "P" through user's profile
(\\servername\users\%username%). It works fine online
(each user have P drive mapped to his/her folder under
USERS folder. But when I try to make it available offline,
I get error messages "ACCESS DENIED". Please help.

PS: I can make other network drives available offline on
the same network.

Thanks

 

[S Vijay [MSFT]]

Hi Sam,

The above issue can be resolved by following the instructions in the KB
article given below:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;275461&Product=win20
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or

SYMPTOMS

If you are an administrator and you try to make folders or files available
for offline use, the users may receive the following error message:

Offline Files

Unable to make folder name available offline on \\server name\share
name\folder name access is denied
This symptom occurs if the users do not have the appropriate permissions to
the root of the share that they are trying to synchronize with when they
create the file for offline use.

CAUSE
This issue may occur if you create a share, put the user's subfolder under
a root share folder, and then include the folder name as part of the drive
mapping. For example, this issue may occur in the following scenario:
On a server that has a folder named Home, you create a share for users to
connect named \\server_name\home$.
You map a drive on the client computer as \\server_name\home$\user_name.

RESOLUTION
To configure a share so that users can synchronize with a subfolder under
the Home$ share, grant all of the users at least Read permissions on the
Home folder. You must do so because the Offline Folder functionality checks
the user's permissions on the root share when it first establishes
synchronization.

Vijay.S

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[S Vijay [MSFT]]

Vijay

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