Hello Yep, looks like this is the best bet as other have had similar problems so I guess with XP its not viable to use sync folders as we are not moving to vista at least for the next 2 vears :-) I will use this method below thanks to all for your help
Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: <www.ultraframe.com> Email: <mailto:[email protected]> Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail Ultraframe design and manufacture innovative and quality conservatory solutions to suit all styles, all applications, all consumers and every price point. By demonstrating our company values of innovation, integrity, total quality, premium service and customer first, we will to continue to build our position as UK market leader. For more information visit our website: <www.ultraframe.co.uk> The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended only for the named recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. ________________________________ From: Scott Kaufman at HQ [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 11 February 2009 15:41 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SYNC files In Windows XP with mostly offline users, the Offline Files has issues with sync'ing and staying up to date. In Vista it appears to be much improved, however, it has flaked out once in awhile. If all you're looking for is to backup their personal files to their home folder, I have resorted to just creating two scheduled tasks, one that runs at user logon & one that runs on idle. It calls a .CMD file with the following: @echo off xcopy /s /e /v /c /d /i /g /h /y "<path to local documents>*.* "<\\unc path of network share/home folder>" If you're trying to keep a shared network drive in sync for several users, I haven't quit figured that one out. Doing this over a VPN, will probably take a long time & depending on how many files & the sizes, the xcopy may never finish. Scott From: Jon Harris [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 10:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SYNC files 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 Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: <www.ultraframe.com <http://www.ultraframe.com/> > Email: <mailto:[email protected]> Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail Ultraframe design and manufacture innovative and quality conservatory solutions to suit all styles, all applications, all consumers and every price point. By demonstrating our company values of innovation, integrity, total quality, premium service and customer first, we will to continue to build our position as UK market leader. For more information visit our website: <www.ultraframe.co.uk <http://www.ultraframe.co.uk/> > The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended only for the named recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
