Offline files disconnected over vpn

Nevertheless, my profile has Administrator privileges so I don't think that access rights should be an issue. Any other ideas? In reply to Simon Wand's post on September 5, Hi Debbie I guess you are referring to the post from mcseRob on July 02, I don't fully understand what he is suggesting here, so I think I need a little bit of hand holding.

I suspect Windows 7 may be subtly but significantly different from Vista. On a practical level, do I need to right click on each "made available offline" folder and select the Security tab? Do I then click " E dit If so, which ones? Unfortunately mcseRob's suggestions don't correspond to the Windows 7 options I see, but I'm probably missing something. Any guidance would be much appreciated! In reply to Simon Wand's post on September 6, Hope this helps! Hi Debbie This doesn't really help.

The page tells me how offline files are supposed to work, but they are clearly not working as they are supposed to. The page doesn't actually offer any troubleshooting steps. Sync Center is what I am using to manually sync files before and after I open them, but this is not an effective work-around since there is nothing to stop another user from editing a file while I have it open.

More and more, when I use Sync Center to sync a file after I have edited is I get a conflict reported which I then have to spend 10 minutes manually resolving, only to discover that while I was manually resolving the conflict, a new conflict has occurred!

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Archived Forums. Windows Vista Networking. For specific hardware-related issues, please use the Windows Vista Hardware forum 12 5. Sign in to vote. We have configured folder redirection with offline files Vista. Wednesday, December 3, PM. What could take multiple guys 2 hours or more each to find is accessed in around 15 minutes on Experts Exchange. All rights reserved.

Covered by US Patent. Come for the solution, stay for everything else. Welcome to our community! Server is Windows R2. Clients are Windows Users are connected on fast VDSL connections. When Offline Files is enabled, users connecting via the VPN can no longer see any folders other than those already synchronised. I have already done all of that. I have narrowed this down to being over WIFI but as mentioned above why would it be detecting slow links if that is what it is doing when I have that disabled.

Thursday, March 8, PM. Did you use metered wifi connection? Any event information when it turn online to offline? In addition, it could be synced fine thus that doesn't affect your normal usage.

Friday, March 9, AM. Any chance you found a solution for this? I am having the same issue with a bunch of our Windows 10 users. When they are working from home on wifi over VPN their offline files state stays in Offline mode and under Windows 10 we cannot force it to go online like we did in Windows 7. Would really be great if there was some way to force it online. Tuesday, March 13, AM. Wednesday, April 4, PM. Its on the home tab OMG! Thanks so much. I never noticed that.

Thursday, April 5, AM. It would be a perfect solution if it actually worked! Tuesday, November 6, PM. Monday, November 19, PM. And it also does not work to disable it in reality. Tuesday, November 20, PM. Friday, March 1, PM. Is in a terrible place. Users are constantly forgetting where it is. Is hard for users to understand.