Offline files problem?!

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Hi,

I am having a little trouble with offline files. I have configured this
succesfully for my user account, to make my home directory (H: drive)
offline. However if anyone else logs into this PC, including local accounts,
when they log out it attempts to synchronize my offline files, hence asks for
my credentials..


I understand from reading the Microsoft KB articles,


http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811660


that the offline folder cache is per machine and not per user, but why is
this happening, is this a limitation of offline folders? And how does this
work for multiple users of PC's??? Eg folder redirection etc?!


Running XP SP2 all updated.
 
Re: Offline files problem?!

UselessUser <UselessUser@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having a little trouble with offline files. I have configured
> this succesfully for my user account, to make my home directory (H:
> drive) offline. However if anyone else logs into this PC, including
> local accounts, when they log out it attempts to synchronize my
> offline files, hence asks for my credentials..
>
>
> I understand from reading the Microsoft KB articles,
>
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811660
>
>
> that the offline folder cache is per machine and not per user, but
> why is this happening, is this a limitation of offline folders?

Yes.

> And
> how does this work for multiple users of PC's??? Eg folder
> redirection etc?!

The same way, as far as I know. Offline Files stinks IMO, and I don't use or
recommend it (esp on LAN-connected computers, as opposed to laptops, and esp
on shared machines). Try posting in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general for
more help, though, as this is really a client side thing.
>
>
> Running XP SP2 all updated.
 
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