Synchronizing with a shared network folder

[Lionel Goulet]

My users are running Windows 2000 at their desktops, and the files are
shared on a folder on a Windows Server 2003 box. It's just a LAN,
peer-to-peer, no domain controller, everybody's in the same workgroup.

Now, to the problem...

When users shut down, a dialog box pops up with "Synchronizing" in the
title. File names on the shared folder flash by, and a thermometer shows
total progress. This synchronization can take minutes sometimes.

The reason I'm even aware of this process is because every once in a while
the source code system has to be re-indexed (Visual SourceSafe) after a user
finishes this synchronization process. Not often enough to be predictable,
but often enough to be a nuisance.

HOW do I turn off or avert this forced synchronization. WHY is it happening?

 

[Richard G. Harper]

Read about offline files here:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000pro/proddocs/probook/prof12.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/Education/Win2kTutorial.aspx

 

[Lionel Goulet]

THANK YOU! Turning off off-line sharing seems to have done the trick. I did
not know it was "on" by default.

-Lionel

Read about offline files here:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000pro/proddocs/probook/prof12.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/Education/Win2kTutorial.aspx

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Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] (e-mail address removed)
* In fond memory ... Alex, you shall be sorely missed
* http://www.aumha.org/alex.htm

My users are running Windows 2000 at their desktops, and the files are
shared on a folder on a Windows Server 2003 box. It's just a LAN,
peer-to-peer, no domain controller, everybody's in the same workgroup.

Now, to the problem...

When users shut down, a dialog box pops up with "Synchronizing" in the
title. File names on the shared folder flash by, and a thermometer shows
total progress. This synchronization can take minutes sometimes.

The reason I'm even aware of this process is because every once in a
while the source code system has to be re-indexed (Visual SourceSafe)
after a user finishes this synchronization process. Not often enough to
be predictable, but often enough to be a nuisance.

HOW do I turn off or avert this forced synchronization. WHY is it
happening?

 

[Richard G. Harper]

Glad I could help you out.

--
Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] (e-mail address removed)
* In fond memory ... Alex, you shall be sorely missed
* http://www.aumha.org/alex.htm

THANK YOU! Turning off off-line sharing seems to have done the trick. I
did not know it was "on" by default.

-Lionel

Read about offline files here:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000pro/proddocs/probook/prof12.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/Education/Win2kTutorial.aspx

--
Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] (e-mail address removed)
* In fond memory ... Alex, you shall be sorely missed
* http://www.aumha.org/alex.htm

My users are running Windows 2000 at their desktops, and the files are
shared on a folder on a Windows Server 2003 box. It's just a LAN,
peer-to-peer, no domain controller, everybody's in the same workgroup.

Now, to the problem...

When users shut down, a dialog box pops up with "Synchronizing" in the
title. File names on the shared folder flash by, and a thermometer shows
total progress. This synchronization can take minutes sometimes.

The reason I'm even aware of this process is because every once in a
while the source code system has to be re-indexed (Visual SourceSafe)
after a user finishes this synchronization process. Not often enough to
be predictable, but often enough to be a nuisance.

HOW do I turn off or avert this forced synchronization. WHY is it
happening?