Following on from an earlier post..

If the slow link speed option is changed will this
actually make a difference in my case?  My user connects
to a 100Mbs connection when he connects to the network in
Germany or the UK.  It is the connection between the sites
that run at 2Mbs and this is the bottle neck.  Is the slow
link speed setting intelligent enough to realise the
bottle neck or does it just take the network connection
speed??

Cheers
G.

Original Post and reply...

I have a user who works between our UK and German
offices.  70% of the time he is in the UK and this is
where he backs up his data to.

Recently I suggested using offline folders to ensure he
has an up to date backup on the server and his machine,
rather than running a script that backed up his laptop
every week.

The german and UK offices are linked via a 2mb leased line
connection which is used for all kinds of uses  (The
network is an NT network on two seperate domains with a
trust relationship).  My user has found it can take
forever to open a document from his offline folders when
he is in Germany as his laptop still seems to want to open
the one on the server rather than his cached copy.  Is
there a way to allow him to work normally with e-mails,
but to use his cached data then do a sync when he wants?

I did dabble with the briefcase options but this does'nt
meet the needs as some workbooks use hyperlinks and so
would need changing when running on the server or the
cached copy.

Has anyone any suggestions??

Many Thanks

G
.

Take a look at the following article:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?
url=/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/prde_ffs_phvy.asp

You will want to configure the "slow link speed".  This
will allow you
to set what the minimum speed to be considered online for
file
access...

Jeffrey Randow (Windows MVP - Networking & Smart Display)