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

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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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