Offline File Synchronisation

I have set up a VPN to my office W2003 SBS server.
I have 3 PCs trying to work using the same Offline Files. All of the files
to be synchronised are in the same directory on the server and are used by
all 3 users.
I have mapped a drive (H to the "myfiles" directory and another (T to
the "Users/myfiles" directory. Both are the same location in real terms.
When I enable offline files in the H: drive, I cannot always see all of the
files in the T: drive, even though they are the same files.
I get a small computer icon with an explaination mark in the system tray.
When I click this and say "work online", the contents of the T: drive comes
back.
These PCs are constantly connected via the VPN, but it is too slow to open
files "live", hence the OLF setup.
My questions: Why are the two drives showing different contents?
Are we synching drive mappings or folders?
We are trying to synch about 2Gb of fairly large files. We are failing to
get a 100% OLF synch (it took over 100hrs to upload the files to the server
in the 1st place). Could this be because I am trying to synch 3 PCs to the
same folder using a single broadband router? Is this just TOO much to ask?
Many thanks for reading this far....
Regards
Jim Wolfe MCSE CNE

Jim,

Is DNS & WINS setup correctly? Is the maximum offline files cache set to
more than 2gb? Are you mapping to the FQDN? We had a similar problem with
offline files randomly dropping off the mappings to some drives because we
were mapping to \\server\folder when we map to \\server.domain.com\folder it
works without problem.

Ben


"Jim Wolfe" <JimWolfe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F8F9BDA2-1E75-4670-9095-68E5C951F9FB@microsoft.com...
>I have set up a VPN to my office W2003 SBS server.
> I have 3 PCs trying to work using the same Offline Files. All of the files
> to be synchronised are in the same directory on the server and are used by
> all 3 users.
> I have mapped a drive (H to the "myfiles" directory and another (T to
> the "Users/myfiles" directory. Both are the same location in real terms.
> When I enable offline files in the H: drive, I cannot always see all of
> the
> files in the T: drive, even though they are the same files.
> I get a small computer icon with an explaination mark in the system tray.
> When I click this and say "work online", the contents of the T: drive
> comes
> back.
> These PCs are constantly connected via the VPN, but it is too slow to open
> files "live", hence the OLF setup.
> My questions: Why are the two drives showing different contents?
> Are we synching drive mappings or folders?
> We are trying to synch about 2Gb of fairly large files. We are failing to
> get a 100% OLF synch (it took over 100hrs to upload the files to the
> server
> in the 1st place). Could this be because I am trying to synch 3 PCs to the
> same folder using a single broadband router? Is this just TOO much to ask?
> Many thanks for reading this far....
> Regards
> Jim Wolfe MCSE CNE

Thanks Ben,

Thanks for responding.

This FQDN thing is interesting - never tried that before. I'll give it a go.
Is this just for VPNing or mapping in general?

What do DNS & WINS have to do with anything (in this instance)?

I do set max OLF to about 3gb, but when I check later it has reduced itself.
I thought this was probably normal - adjusting itself to the amount of space
it actually uses. Is this not correct?

"Ben" wrote:

> Jim,
>
> Is DNS & WINS setup correctly? Is the maximum offline files cache set to
> more than 2gb? Are you mapping to the FQDN? We had a similar problem with
> offline files randomly dropping off the mappings to some drives because we
> were mapping to \\server\folder when we map to \\server.domain.com\folder it
> works without problem.
>
> Ben
>
>
> "Jim Wolfe" <JimWolfe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F8F9BDA2-1E75-4670-9095-68E5C951F9FB@microsoft.com...
> >I have set up a VPN to my office W2003 SBS server.
> > I have 3 PCs trying to work using the same Offline Files. All of the files
> > to be synchronised are in the same directory on the server and are used by
> > all 3 users.
> > I have mapped a drive (H to the "myfiles" directory and another (T to
> > the "Users/myfiles" directory. Both are the same location in real terms.
> > When I enable offline files in the H: drive, I cannot always see all of
> > the
> > files in the T: drive, even though they are the same files.
> > I get a small computer icon with an explaination mark in the system tray.
> > When I click this and say "work online", the contents of the T: drive
> > comes
> > back.
> > These PCs are constantly connected via the VPN, but it is too slow to open
> > files "live", hence the OLF setup.
> > My questions: Why are the two drives showing different contents?
> > Are we synching drive mappings or folders?
> > We are trying to synch about 2Gb of fairly large files. We are failing to
> > get a 100% OLF synch (it took over 100hrs to upload the files to the
> > server
> > in the 1st place). Could this be because I am trying to synch 3 PCs to the
> > same folder using a single broadband router? Is this just TOO much to ask?
> > Many thanks for reading this far....
> > Regards
> > Jim Wolfe MCSE CNE
>
>
>