Re: Working offline& dialing in problems

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From: Jon S (JonS_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/18/04 

Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 07:17:55 -0700

Thanks for that. It seems like this is the only way round
it then. Bit of a pain though.

Thanks again.

>-----Original Message-----
>See if this looks relevant:
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-
US;q290523
>
>Jon S wrote:
>> I don't know if anyone else has come across this
problem
>> (I hope they have), this is the situation...
>>
>> Users running windows XP have their My Documents
>> redirected to a file server location called \\filesrv2
>> \users$\%username%.
>>
>> They also have a mapped drive setup to point to
\\filesrv2
>> \public.
>>
>> When dialing into the network, they go into the public
>> drive, but it is shown as empty. I think it is to do
with
>> windows associating the server filesrv2 with having an
>> offline copy, and the only wasy I have found round it
is
>> to click on the little computer icon (bottom right) and
>> either sync, or work online without synching to get it
to
>> work.
>>
>> I there a way of separating the two locations so that
>> only the My Docs is associated with offline files.
>
>You can disable offline files on any share/drive you
wish....
>>
>> i hope this all makes sense.
>
>
>.
>

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