Slow Link Speed

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Paul Hadfield

I'm trying to use a combination of Redirected Folders and Offline Files for
My Documents folders on laptops.

It works fine when connected to the LAN, out and about with no network, or
when users are at home with an Internet connection.

The problem starts when the laptop user establishes a VPN connection into
the office LAN. Off-line files see's the domain once more and start to sync
files. This I want to prevent.

The GPO Computer Config\Admin Template\Network\Offline Files\Configure Slow
Link speed is enabled and it's value is set to 10240. The laptop users VPN
provides ~450kbps link to the office in both directions. Yet the laptops
still insist on synchronising the files over the VPN connection.

Is there anyway I can configure off-line files to ONLY sync using the LAN
connection and not the VPN?

All VPN, file share, DC servers are 2003 SP1 running in native mode and all
laptop clients are XP Pro SP2.

Thanks in advance,
Paul.
 
Paul,

Offline files configuration can be set for different connections on the
machine. From the run command on the XP machine run "mobsync" and this will
bring up the offline files configuration. Select setup and then investigate
the Sync settings, I suspect that you have logon and logoff enabled for LAN
connection, ensure that you remove these two ticks for the VPN connection in
the drop down selection.
 
Thanks for this Dave.

However, do you know if there is anyway to configure this from GPO or a
logon script of some kind? It's just that the laptops users are dotted all
over the country and it's kinda hard to get hold of them.

Cheers,
Paul.
 
Paul,

That makes it more difficult, the slow link detection should work, however
there has been an article in the past covering a problem with this
functionality in SP1, when the machine will not force offline. Anyway I
would recommend that you try out the "Go offline" capability in the registry
on a client and then we can talk about getting the reg key out in a startup
script if it solves the problem.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=811525

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Dave Britt

Dave's Weblog
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This gives me plenty to go on - cheers.

I'm trying to get hold of a users laptop for the weekend to try this - I'll
let you know how it goes.

Thanks,
Paul.
 
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