Vincent, Alex wrote:
I have been experimenting with the offline folders feature of Windows 2000 Professional to make a local offline copy of a network share held on the filer.
I have found that when I create a brand new share on a Windows 2000 Server and mark this share to be available offline everything works OK.
When I create an identical share on our filer and make this available offline everything seems fine at first. The documents will sync. I can then take my laptop off of our network and read the offline copies of the documents. The problem comes when I reconnect. If I have only created new documents whilst at home, on reconnection these synchronize fine. If I have amended an existing document, when I return the synchronization fails with the following errors :
Offline Files (\Filer\share file://\\Filer\share on Filer): Unable to access 'New Microsoft Word Document.doc' on \Filer\share file://\\Filer\share. An unexpected network error occurred.
Offline Files (\Filer\share file://\\Filer\share on Filer): Unable to merge offline changes on '\filer\share'. An unexpected network error occurred.
I have checked the permissions and both share and file level permissions are set to Everyone - Full Control. I have also upgraded to the latest version of OnTap hoping this would cure it.
Any ideas ?
Kind regards, Alex Vincent Pfizer Consumer Healthcare
I am seeing a similar but slightly different situation. We are finding that after successful synchronisation the laptop will spontaneously start operating off-line again even though the LAN connection is fine. This happens on any machine which is configured for off-line files, including desktop machines and is not dependent on network card model. I've raised a NOW case with Netapps to ask for further details of what the enhancement for support of off-line files in 6.4.1 is actually meant to do, as the information in the release notes and the manual is very limited. For what its worth our network traces indicate a rejection by the filer when it receives an SMB 'Connect Tree' request for \server\username which should be a pseudo share which is normally always avaailable. Does anyone else have any working configuration with off-line files on XP working against a Netapps filer?