Re: Offline Files and Folders

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From: Eric Renken (eric_no_spam_at_no_spam_mynoc.com)
Date: 05/05/04 

Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 13:13:01 -0400

If you have redirected their My Documents to a network share Windows XP will
automatically make the My Documents folder available offline and grey out
the option so you can't turn it off. Windows XP does this with system
folders that a redirected. If you want to turn off this feature you can
through policies.

In the Group Policy Editor go to this tree:

User Configuration
|
-- Administrative Templates
        |
        -- Network
                |
                -- Offline Files

In there you should see a setting "Do not automatically make redirected
folders available offline." You would want to enable this policy. 

-- 
Eric Renken
Microsoft Associate Expert.
Expert Zone
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
"Dan Goodman" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:8d5e01c432b8$c9bb8ee0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> I'm having alot of difficulty with Offline Files and
> folders on our WINXP machines.
> First and foremost I'd like to find out why after making a
> folder available offline the "Make Available Offline" is
> grayed out and I cannot reverse it the way your suppose to
> be able to.
> Second, I'd like suggestions on why when using Offline
> Files and Folders the users complain of losing their
> connection to the folders. Their mapped drives are alos
> losing their connections but seemingly they never lose
> their connections to our network.
>
> Thanks for any assistance here.

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