Re: offline files and vpn
- From: "Eric McWhorter" <creditinterlink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:37:22 -0500
Perhaps try establishing the VPN connection PRIOR to logging into your
machine. With the Cisco VPN client, one can enable a setting "Enable start
before logon":
Options >> Windows Logon Properties
check the box next to "Enable start before logon"
Then, reboot your computer, and once you press ctrl-alt-del to log on, you
will be presented with a smaller version of the Cisco VPN client. Choose
the appropriate connection, connect, and THEN log onto your machine in the
usual way. This will allow your computer to be on the LAN at the time of
logon, enabling all of the nice things like logon scripts, DNS registration,
etc., to happen as they normally would if you were physically on the office
LAN.
I can't speak specifically to your offline folder issues, but I have a
feeling that this might alleviate it by circumventing the situation
altogether.
- Eric McWhorter
<boguhn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1112371342.634719.82990@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have the 'My Documents' folder on my Windows XP Service Pack 2 laptop
>
> redirected to a network folder. The folder is set up for offline use.
>
>
> When I am in the office, I am able to use the 'My Documents' folder, as
>
> well as access the server it is on, without issue. However, when I
> leave the office I start to have issues. They are as follows:
>
>
> - I sync the folder and it tells me that everything is synced.
> However, when I am offline, things that should be available to me are
> not there.
> - When I boot up the system offline, logon, and then run a VPN client
> (Cisco VPN software) to connect to my company, I make a successful VPN
> connection but cannot sync my files; no matter what I do, I am always
> told that the 'My Documents' folder and the server it resides on are
> offline. I have full access to all other systems I would want to get
> to when connected via VPN except for this one server.
> - When connected via VPN and told that I am 'offline', I can browse to
> the server in question, and then only see a limited number of folders
> than what I should be seeing. In the process of doing this, I will be
> prompted by Windows for a username and password. When I put my
> username and password in, they are not accepted.
> - I know this configuration and what I am attempting to do should work,
>
> as I used it successfully up until about 4 months ago when I rebuilt my
>
> laptop from scratch. Ever since rebuilding the system, I have not been
>
> able to work offline and then sync via VPN.
> - When in my office, I have turned off offline access, removed my
> system from the domain, synced the domain, then added my system back in
>
> and turned offline files back on again. I cleared out all existing
> offline files in the process of doing this and then did a resync. This
>
> did not solve the problem.
>
>
> Any thoughts to solve this would be appreciated.
>
.
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