Synchronising problem with network folder

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Jonny Two Shoes

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Hi all,

Once again one of my users has a particularly annoying problem.

For the sake of her being able to work at home I have synchronised a particular folder off the fileserver for her. All worked fine and dandy until one day it suddenly went haywire.

Once before I had to take away "make available offline" and then enable it again as it didn't want to sync. This fixed the problem for a long while.

Now suddenly the problem is back and just does not want to go away no matter what I try.

Everytime the user comes back to work and plugs her laptop into the network and logs in it does not want to sync with the changes she made to the offline files. I see it says "the parameter is incorrect" as part of the error however I dont understand how this can be as the moment I take sync away and re-apply it there are no parameter issues until the next day!!

Can anyone here suggest general solutions with this type of sync problem? She is using win XP with all updates pushed by Corporate.
 
Had that problem too, theres a MS knowledge base article on it. Followed that and never had the problem again.

Remember, there are certain types of files that dont sync, but these should not be available offline anyways.
 
Many thanks rsachoc :D I will read the article now and let you know how it goes.

I had resync'd the folder again and the user phoned me this morning telling me the problem is back :( :mad:
 
Yeah I found that didnt really work. Clearing the cache seems to have sorted out the problem for me *touch wood*
 
DAMMIT :mad: :mad: :( Im gonna cry!!

She phoned me again this morning and guess what.

Oh well *sigh*. She says she just changed one word document while off site and when she docked her laptop and turned it on the first thing win XP said was same old "parameter is incorrect" error.

Any more suggestions very welcome :)
 
Hmmm, you mentioned docking? Maybe get her to try by just plugging in the laptop into a network cable instead of docking?
 
hmmm could try that....you really think it could have something to do with the port replicator?

I've seen stranger things though so will give that a try next week. :) tx
 
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