Windows 7 and Offline files STILL not working.

So, this is a HUGE issue. I am an IT consultant in the Raleigh NC area. My company had been doing a lot of testing and roll-out of the ReadyNAS line for a number of years now, and we have had the luxury or working directly with the ReadyNAS technical team (which is excellent)

I love the READYNAS line and I am in the midst of moving all the shares off of the servers for a few clients and then virtualizing their servers (after the shares are moved off). All of the shares and VMs are stored on the NAS.

I have probably sold about 50 NAS units over the past year to varying customers.

Anyways, I am doing a share move this weekend for a small customer with an NVX and I am having this exact issue as well. In my case used the built-in home shares which are automatically created as users hit the NAS. I have a group policy to redirect the My Documents folder to \\NAS\%USERNAME%\My Documents.

My NAS has the latest firmware updates. I have tried all the suggestions in this thread and have had no luck. Disabling indexing in Win7 doesnt make a difference. I cleared the CSC folder and that doesnt help. I also tried disableing SMB2.0 (found in another forum) and this doesnt work.

The previous poster menas by "Enabling Guest Access" is the little check box under the CIFS properties in the share menu. (this doesnt work on this issue in of itself, BTW) Also, you cannot Enable Guest access for the home share unless you go to the Linux console of the NAS. The guest access defeats the whole purpose of the home share since it is supposed to be PRIVATE.

The previous poster also talked of enabled USER security. This is in the security section of the NAS and this is the area where you join the NAS to a domain or not. In my case, I HAVE to have the NAS joined ot the domain because the shares are security controlled by Domain-based Security Groups. Some group allow read-access to some shares, etc. So, if you put your NAS in guest access mode, then you wont be able to pull any of the domain groups/users for ACL purposes.

Netgear, this is a big issue and showstopper for many of my clients. If it is a Win 7 Problem, please give us a fix. If it is a NAS issue, please give us a fix. Here I am at a client past midnight trying to figure out what is going on. They are not going to be happy when they cant take their offline files with them when they leave the office with their laptops.

Thanks!