[Samba] Problem with offline drive

[rayklassen at gmail.com]

That's a windows caching function

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307853




On Jan 29, 2009 8:02am, BOURIAUD <david.bouriaud at ac-rouen.fr> wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I hope that someone will be abble to help me with the problem I get with  
my
>
> samba machines, though it is not really a samba problem.
>
> Here is the config I use :
>
> I'm running a samba controler on a rhel 5 machine (rpm -qa says
>
> samba-3.0.33-3.7.el5) which acts as a domain controler.
>
> My machines, all windows XP use to be connected to this controler. I have  
no
>
> problem with them. The problem occurs with laptops.
>
> Indeed, we have some drives mapped to the domain controler. The one that
>
> causes problem is the M: drive, on which is stored the profile of  
thunderbird.
>
> When the laptop is connected to the network, no problems. Thunderbird  
works
>
> just fine. All mails are here.
>
> When the laptop is out of the office, connected or not to another network
>
> doesn't change anything, thunderbird shows a weird interface, there are
>
> missing mails, missing folders on the left view and so on.
>
> When I connected the M: drive to \\server\mail, I right-clicked on the M:
>
> drive in the "My computer" view and selected the option to have this drive
>
> offline. When I'm disconnected of the network, I can walk in this drive  
and
>
> see all the files that belongs to thunderbird. I even can view the  
content of
>
> individual files with notepad for example.
>
> Is there anyone here either to help me or to direct me to another place  
where
>
> I could find help for this peculiar topic ?
>
> I've of course searched the web, read many things about offline drives,  
but
>
> found nothing helpfull.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help provided.
>
>
>
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