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 on Filer): Unable to access 'New Microsoft Word Document.doc' on \\Filer\share. An unexpected network error occurred.
 
Offline Files (\\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
 
 
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