Laptop does not know if it is on or off the network

[Guest Jordan]

I have a couple of laptops that have a problem with certain features like

roaming profiles and syncronization where they do not seem to know when they

are off the network. Sometimes when starting up at home or elsewhere a

couple of laptops will give the users an error that it cannot find their

roaming profile. Also a lot of the time when they shut down syncronization

will not be able to run (of course) and shutdown just sits at the file

syncronization screen with the failure message forcing the users to press

OK.

 

All computers are XP Pro SP2 and all patches up to a month or two ago.

Server that holds the roaming profiles and the files that the user is trying

to sync is a W2K DC with all the latest patches.

[Guest Jarred]

Re: Laptop does not know if it is on or off the network

 

Is network configured properly? Can you connect using another computer?

 

"Jordan" <me@here.com> wrote in message

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> I have a couple of laptops that have a problem with certain features like

> roaming profiles and syncronization where they do not seem to know when

> they are off the network. Sometimes when starting up at home or elsewhere

> a couple of laptops will give the users an error that it cannot find their

> roaming profile. Also a lot of the time when they shut down

> syncronization will not be able to run (of course) and shutdown just sits

> at the file syncronization screen with the failure message forcing the

> users to press OK.

>

> All computers are XP Pro SP2 and all patches up to a month or two ago.

> Server that holds the roaming profiles and the files that the user is

> trying to sync is a W2K DC with all the latest patches.

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest Jordan]

Re: Laptop does not know if it is on or off the network

 

Yes,

 

When connected to the network, or any other network, connections seem fine.

I can browse the Internet and everything else from home or where ever

without an issue.

 

What is happening is that the laptop does not realized that it is not on the

domain at the time and it tries to do things like update my roaming proflile

when I log onto the laptop from home and syncronize my offline files as

well. All my other units know when they are off the domain and do not try

to sync files or download roaming profiles.

 

Working laptops know when they are off the domain and they do not attempt to

sync files or profiles, but they do know when a VPN connection fires up to

work and they can detect that they are on the domain then and prompt to sync

then as they should. These non-working units just always assume that any

network connection is on the domain and attempt to connect, then fail, then

operate fine but just annoy me with the sync issue at logon and logoff.

 

"Jarred" <jarred.geroux@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> Is network configured properly? Can you connect using another computer?

>

> "Jordan" <me@here.com> wrote in message

> news:O4rD2zL7IHA.5024@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>> I have a couple of laptops that have a problem with certain features like

>> roaming profiles and syncronization where they do not seem to know when

>> they are off the network. Sometimes when starting up at home or

>> elsewhere a couple of laptops will give the users an error that it cannot

>> find their roaming profile. Also a lot of the time when they shut down

>> syncronization will not be able to run (of course) and shutdown just sits

>> at the file syncronization screen with the failure message forcing the

>> users to press OK.

>>

>> All computers are XP Pro SP2 and all patches up to a month or two ago.

>> Server that holds the roaming profiles and the files that the user is

>> trying to sync is a W2K DC with all the latest patches.

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>