How to remove offline files reference to removed share

[Anthony Smith]

I have recently moved a large amount of data from a file
server to a NAS device. The server is still used as a
print server and has not been removed from the domain. A
number of laptop users in the organisation use the offline
file synchronisation feature of Windows 2000 to allow them
to have access to documents when away from the office.
The problem is that although I have deleted all the
offline files that related to these obsolete shares on
these client machines, shortly after connecting to the
network the offline files balloon pops up stating that the
server in question is offline. This in itself would not
be so bad, but as soon as the PC thinks the server is
offline, it then wont allow the client to connection to
any of the network printers on that server. If you browse
to the server via either a UNC or explorer, none of the
shared printers can be seen, all other network services
appear to be fine. This is a real headache!!! Try as I
might, I cannot seem to remove references to these old
shares.

Has anyone else come across a similar problem? Can you
suggest a solution? Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Did you remove option "Tools, Synchronize" items to
synchronize. Remove the checkbox that contains files that
you used to synchronize. What happens is, as soon as you
connect to the network, your sync manager tries to look
for those files on the server so that it can sync them and
make them available offline. go to TOOLS, Synchronize and
remove those files.
Let me know if it helped.
-Nimit

 

[Anthony Smith]

Yes I tried this, but they seem to just "re-tick"
themselves after a while.

 

[djlc]

I'm having the exact same problem here.
I found one way to fix this, but it is not anything that can be done o
a large scale. I first turned off Offline Files. Then I rebooted th
machine and deleted c:\winnt\csc. I then deleted the registry ke
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\NetCache.
and re-enabled offline files. I then rebooted and the old server wa
gone. Again, this isn't feasible for more than a few workstations, an
I'm still hoping someone has a better solution


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djl