A couple of ideas for consideration.  First Sync works better in Vista.
Second in Vista you can backups to run.  I normally have my Desktops being
backed up at night but I have done full backups during work hours with
little impact on the users.  YMMV but that is what I have.

Jon

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Nigel Parker <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear all
> Our laptop users do not copy or save files on the network, one has now
> killed his hard disk and all the files are lost unless we pay for
> emergency recovery (the disk isnt recognised and will not spin up)
>
> we run in mixed mode with nt4 2000 and 2003 servers
> the files are mainly stored on 2000 machines
>
> the laptops all run windows xp sp3 with all current updates
> Laptops use VPN to access the network and occasionally are actually in
> the office
>
> I tried the synchronise files options but some machine went strange
> preferring not to sync and use local copies older than the network ones,
> is this just an isolated occurrence has anyone else had these problems
> (i had to re create the users profiles to fix the problem)
>
> Is this the best way or would it be more advisable to just get the users
> to save files and copy them manually onto the network (although they
> will need to remember to do this)
>
> Any help would be most welcome because if the sales managers machine
> goes then it could be I am looking fo another job :-(
>
>
>
>  Nigel Parker
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