dfs offline folders not available windows xp

[Dr Splodge]

Hi guys, appreciate any help that you can give here...

Pretty much, heres the run down:

Theres this problem with offline files.

Offline files works fine when the network cable is plugged and
unplugged intermitently. You can see the files that are cached, and
you can continue working as if you were still connected to the LAN.

However, when the computer/laptop is rebooted, and logged back in
(whilst offline, which means having the network cable unplugged),
offline files no longer works. When you double click on the drive
mapping which was made available offline, it says it cannot contact
the domain controller (for obivous reasons). You would expect that you
would be able to view the files still considering the files are cached
offline?

Known work arounds?
Well, if you right click on the drive that was mapped offline, and go
to properties... you can see the size of the drive still (in terms of
megabytes etc)... then if you click ok... you suddenly have access to
the files offline? weird huh?

What they're running?
laptops with xp and sp2
server is win2003 enterprise and mappings are dfs

What I've tried... I've set folder permissions for items in the dfs on
the server to "everyone"... still no luck... been reading up on heaps
of posts too... but yeah, no spaghetti yet...

 

[Guest]

After several Month of using Offline folders, Since a few days I have the
same problem. Till now the problem does not arise on the My Documents Folder,
which ist made available offline by Group Policy, but I have the Problem on
mapped drives, which in our case are mapped to a dfs share.
Once You have triggered a workaround, you can logoff and logon again and use
the Offline Drive, but the Problem always arises after a reboot.

Another Workaround:
Go to the Offline Folder open and close one document. Afterwards you have
acess to the offline drive.