Working offline& dialing in problems

[Jon S]

I don't know if anyone else has come across this problem
(I hope they have), this is the situation...

Users running windows XP have their My Documents
redirected to a file server location called \\filesrv2
\users$\%username%.

They also have a mapped drive setup to point to \\filesrv2
\public.

When dialing into the network, they go into the public
drive, but it is shown as empty. I think it is to do with
windows associating the server filesrv2 with having an
offline copy, and the only wasy I have found round it is
to click on the little computer icon (bottom right) and
either sync, or work online without synching to get it to
work.

I there a way of separating the two locations so that
only the My Docs is associated with offline files.

i hope this all makes sense.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

See if this looks relevant:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q290523

I don't know if anyone else has come across this problem
(I hope they have), this is the situation...

Users running windows XP have their My Documents
redirected to a file server location called \\filesrv2
\users$\%username%.

They also have a mapped drive setup to point to \\filesrv2
\public.

When dialing into the network, they go into the public
drive, but it is shown as empty. I think it is to do with
windows associating the server filesrv2 with having an
offline copy, and the only wasy I have found round it is
to click on the little computer icon (bottom right) and
either sync, or work online without synching to get it to
work.

I there a way of separating the two locations so that
only the My Docs is associated with offline files.

You can disable offline files on any share/drive you wish....

 

[Jon S]

Thanks for that. It seems like this is the only way round
it then. Bit of a pain though.

Thanks again.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

FWIW, I hate offline files. I use a third party utility called SecondCopy
2000 instead....I find it a lot nicer. www.centered.com - they have a 30-day
eval. It's inexpensive, and it's part of standard laptop/remote user
computer build nowadays.