Re: Workstations are going offline! Help!

Brian B. wrote:
Hi Stephen - Thanks for replying....These issues are really trying to break me, but i won't let 'em! I'll try setting the NIC speed & see what happens. I'm not sure where I should set group policies for the items you mentioned, though I do like the idea of cancelling offline files for permanently connected machines & enabling them on the laptops....where can I turn this off?

It's maybe too soon to say for sure, but since I disabled 'checksum offloading' in the driver properties of the network adapter in my laptop I haven't had the offline bubble pop up! (Properties of nic -> configure -> advanced -> checksum offload -> none)

This might do a different thing than that registry setting mentioned in the KB you quoted. There's also a Large Send Offload setting which might be worth tweaking.

As for the group policy settings, I created 3 OUs under my SBS computers OU called Local Computers, Portable Computers, and Remote Computers and moved the relevant computers into these OUs in AD Users & Computers.

In GP Management, I created a GPO called Disable Offline Files which sets "Allow or Disallow use of the Offline Files feature" to disabled (Computer Configuration/Admin Templates/Network/Offline Files) and then linked this GPO to my Local Computers and Remote Computers OU.

Unless you don't want folder redirection for a group of computers you can just create a GPO defining the redirection and link it at the domain level. However, if you want to restrict folder redirection to certain computers the GPO needs loopback processing because the Folder Redirection settings apply normally apply to Users, not Computers. In my case I linked the Folder Redirection GPO to Local Computers and Portable Computers, but didn't link it to my Remote Computers GPO.

-- stephen
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