Force Offline Files fix not working
- From: "Chris McFarling" <mcfly09@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:41:41 -0400
I work primarily offsite and connect to the company LAN via VPN. I'm using
Win2K Server as my desktop OS. I have a folder that resides on one of the
company servers that I'd like to setup to utilize Offline Files. The catch
is, I would like the folder to function in off-line mode even when my
network connection is active. That way I can synchronize manually at my
convenience, say at 2:00am when I'm asleep, but the rest of the time I can
work on local versions of files. Some of the files are very big and due to
other Win2K browsing issues, just navigating a couple folders on the server
over the VPN connection takes *forever*.
The ability to handle this scenario has apparently been requested enough
that MS issued a hotfix and a couple KB acticles explaining how to make this
happen. According to this KB
Configure Slow Link Speed Group Policy does not force offline files to
offline mode when a slow link is detected
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;811525
in order for this to work for Win2k, I need Update Rollup 1 for Windows 2000
SP4 and a Hotfix. I then have to make a reg edit and adjust a group policy
setting. I've done all of this but I do not get the expected behavior. I
have also set the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\NetCache\SlowLi
nkSpeed
key but that has not made a difference. The latest values I've used for the
settings mentioned above are as follows:
Configure Slow Link Speed Group Policy setting = 120000
SlowLinkSpeed = 1200000
I have two separate values because the documentation specifies that each one
is calculated differently. For the group policy setting it's calculated by a
formula explained here:
How a Slow Link Is Detected for Processing User Profiles and Group Policy
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=227260
For the registry entry it's calculated as explained here:
Transition of Offline Files to Online Only Occurs Over Fast Link
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=263097
Either way I wanted to set it so that it was greater than 100Mb. Apparently,
Win2K (pre-hotfix) used the reported speed of NIC to determine if the link
was to be considered slow, as opposed to the actual transfer speed of the
connection. Just in case the NIC speed was being used, I wanted to set the
threshold higher than 100Mb to assure that even a 100Mb connection would be
considered slow. However that has not made a difference.
Here's a very informative article that explains in detail how this should
work.
http://www.itproffs.se/forumv2/tm.aspx?m=39053
However, unfortunatley, when I attempt to access the network folder, instead
of it switching to offline mode and opening the local offline folder,
Windows opens the actual online, network based folder.
Are there any other tweaks to try that aren't mentioned in any of those
articles to try? Has anyone got this to work on Win2K even?
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