Network drive mapping

13 Mar 2009 12:40 PM

Sukhwinder Singh

Hello,

We are facing a small challenge with the network drive mapping and offline
files. We have some users for whom we have applied the script to map some
network drives. It is working fine and they are getting all the drives. Now
they have made some of the folders available offline out of those network
drives.
When they are connected they are able to access everything fine but once
they are disconnected and they login fresh with cached credentials they are
not able to see any drive which contains offline folders. When they try to
access the drives using \\servername\share they are able to see the offline
folders and are able to work.

Is there a way by which they should be able to see the network drives when
they are not connected to network and they can access offline folders.
I dont want them to access UNC manually when they are offline.

Thanks and Regards,

13 Mar 2009 1:25 PM

Isaac Oben [MCITP,MCSE]

Hello Sukhwinder,

Make sure you have the proper offline settings on the shared folder. Right
click on the shared folder, select properties, select caching and configure
your offline settings accordingly.

--
Isaac Oben [MCTIP:EA, MCSE]

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"Sukhwinder Singh" <SukhwinderSi***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:35508501-32AF-4BA3-9B6D-6DD50E835E14@microsoft.com...
> Hello,
>
> We are facing a small challenge with the network drive mapping and offline
> files. We have some users for whom we have applied the script to map some
> network drives. It is working fine and they are getting all the drives.
> Now
> they have made some of the folders available offline out of those network
> drives.
> When they are connected they are able to access everything fine but once
> they are disconnected and they login fresh with cached credentials they
> are
> not able to see any drive which contains offline folders. When they try to
> access the drives using \\servername\share they are able to see the
> offline
> folders and are able to work.
>
> Is there a way by which they should be able to see the network drives when
> they are not connected to network and they can access offline folders.
> I dont want them to access UNC manually when they are offline.
>
> Thanks and Regards,
>

14 Mar 2009 9:11 AM

Anthony [MVP]

You can use My Network Places to give them a path to the folders,
Anthony,
http://www.airdesk.com

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"Sukhwinder Singh" <SukhwinderSi***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:35508501-32AF-4BA3-9B6D-6DD50E835E14@microsoft.com...
> Hello,
>
> We are facing a small challenge with the network drive mapping and offline
> files. We have some users for whom we have applied the script to map some
> network drives. It is working fine and they are getting all the drives.
> Now
> they have made some of the folders available offline out of those network
> drives.
> When they are connected they are able to access everything fine but once
> they are disconnected and they login fresh with cached credentials they
> are
> not able to see any drive which contains offline folders. When they try to
> access the drives using \\servername\share they are able to see the
> offline
> folders and are able to work.
>
> Is there a way by which they should be able to see the network drives when
> they are not connected to network and they can access offline folders.
> I dont want them to access UNC manually when they are offline.
>
> Thanks and Regards,
>

17 Mar 2009 11:24 AM

Sukhwinder Singh

Dear Anthony,

We can do that but user is not ready to accept as he was able to get the
drives before his laptop was formatted.

Is there a way to get the drives mapped even after disconnecting the network.

Sukhwinder Singh

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"Anthony [MVP]" wrote:

> You can use My Network Places to give them a path to the folders,
> Anthony,
> http://www.airdesk.com
>
> "Sukhwinder Singh" <SukhwinderSi***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:35508501-32AF-4BA3-9B6D-6DD50E835E14@microsoft.com...
> > Hello,
> >
> > We are facing a small challenge with the network drive mapping and offline
> > files. We have some users for whom we have applied the script to map some
> > network drives. It is working fine and they are getting all the drives.
> > Now
> > they have made some of the folders available offline out of those network
> > drives.
> > When they are connected they are able to access everything fine but once
> > they are disconnected and they login fresh with cached credentials they
> > are
> > not able to see any drive which contains offline folders. When they try to
> > access the drives using \\servername\share they are able to see the
> > offline
> > folders and are able to work.
> >
> > Is there a way by which they should be able to see the network drives when
> > they are not connected to network and they can access offline folders.
> > I dont want them to access UNC manually when they are offline.
> >
> > Thanks and Regards,
> >
>