Offline files and mapped drives fault

[armatage]

We are experiencing a strange problem with offline files and mapped drives.

My Documents are mapped with a logon script at logon to \\Server1\usersdocs\

We also have other shares on the same server... \\Server1\Data and \\Server1\Installs\

The problem is if the user is in offline mode but connected to the work network either directly or via the VPN they only see the usersdocs share and not the other 2. But as soon as the user is synchronised they can see all the shares.

Anyone know how to enable the PC's to see the data and installs shares? I've not been able to find anything after a few hours of searching the web.

 

[signal11th]

You mentioned that the user is in offline mode but can only see whats shared using offline files... isn't what that it's designed to do?

If your in offline mode but still connected to the work network it will still only show you what's cached using offline files.

 

[this_is_gav]

You can force online mode by stopping networked devices from powering down - most devices have it in the 'power management' and 'advanced' tabs for the respective device in Device Manager.

There must be a better way, but that's the easiest way I managed to force online mode at work.