We use offline folders with
synchronization and have no issues – it sounds like it may be related to
permissions on the actual user share itself – can you elaborate as to the
configuration there?
Also – what exactly does MS mean by ‘masking’
the failure? That it still fails but they don’t inform you?
The other issue that I can think of –
if user1 and user2 were test accounts, and user2 was actually synchronizing to
user1 at some point in the past, there is a cache folder on the local client
that probably needs to be cleaned out: this folder is responsible for
retaining the files\cache data that refers to the location of the data on the
network – I’ve seen this become corrupted before (switching servers
where the home dir is located, for example) such that the offline folder
synchronization process still attempts to look in the old location as well as
the new. Just a hunch.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=230738
Glenn
From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com
[mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On
Behalf Of Christopher Mende
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006
12:49 AM
To: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: CIFS homedir offline file
synchronization
Hi All,
Anyone run into issues with offline file
synchronization for homedirs?
Have an issue where user1 logs in and out, and sync
works just fine.
User 2 logs in and out & syncs, plus it tries to
sync user1 again, which fails.
According to M$, if you were using one of their
servers, the share permissions on the user share would be set to Full Control,
and Windows would actually mask the failure.
Seems this isn’t happening when using the filer
– any ideas short of scrapping the auto-homedir feature? How does one
change the share permissions on these auto-gen’d shares which
aren’t accessible via traditional methods? If that’s really the
fix.
Christopher Mende
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