Folder redirection & slow links ...

[Guest the.bones@gmail.com]

All,

 

I know this has been asked/answered before, but wanted to see if

anyone had any reasonable workarounds. We just setup a branch office

with a "slow link", and naturally, Windows folder redirection becomes

unusable for users at that location. However, I like folder

redirection because it provides for a centralized backup mechanism for

user data.

 

Is there some way to:

 

1. At logon, sync redirected folders over the network

2. Force the user work off the locally cached copy during the workday

3. At logoff, sync the redirected folders with the server again

 

?

 

Any help appreciated.

 

Bones

[Guest Jack Doyle]

Re: Folder redirection & slow links ...

 

the.bones@gmail.com wrote:

> I know this has been asked/answered before, but wanted to see if

> anyone had any reasonable workarounds. We just setup a branch office

> with a "slow link", and naturally, Windows folder redirection becomes

> unusable for users at that location. However, I like folder

> redirection because it provides for a centralized backup mechanism for

> user data.

>

> Is there some way to:

>

> 1. At logon, sync redirected folders over the network

> 2. Force the user work off the locally cached copy during the workday

> 3. At logoff, sync the redirected folders with the server again

 

Take a look at Windows DFS (Distributed File System). Configure that

and have a copy of the users folders at the different locations. Then,

instead of redirecting their folder to a specific server, redirect to

the DFS share. It will be a local copy. Any changes they make to their

files will be replicated to the other copies of the share via DFS

replication.

 

DFS has been much improved in Windows 2003 R2, so you should consider

looking at that version of DFS.

 

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Jack Doyle, Systems Engineer

ScriptLogic Corporation

http://www.scriptlogic.com