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naughtyscamp
Nov 04, 2010Aspirant
Windows 7 and Offline files STILL not working.
There have been many posts on this forum for months now, bemoaning the malfunctioning offline files feature when using Windows 7 (ie trying to sync brings up thousands of errors informing that files a...
hoverman
Jan 24, 2011Aspirant
All,
So... I think I figured out how to make this work. Specifically, I am trying to create Private home shares on the readynas which users' My Docs (and other personal files) are redirected to and can take offline with them when they leave the office with a mobile device.
The readynas is joined ot the domain, BTW.
I read up on OPLOCKS for serveral hours and tried to understand WHY I need it for shares and where it is best applied.
After reading this article:
http://www.superbase.com/services_tech_support_oplocks.htm
I decided that since the home shares are private and only being access by one user, OPLOCKS isnt really necessary.
Since no one in this thread (or others) have tried this WITHUOT OPLOCKS, I figured its worth a shot.
I did NOT disable windows serach in win 7, or SAMBA 2, or anything funky in registry.
Most of my users have UNDER 1 GB of DATA, but I have two users with 11GB + in their MY Docs and it worked fine for all users.
As soon as I DISABLED oplocks, the error about "file being used by another process" never came back when performing a sync.
Here is my setup:
1) Log into your NAS device (for arguments sake, I'll refer to mine as NAS)
2) DONT USE THE BUILT IN HOME SHARES! (they are REALLY a nice feature, but there is no GUI control over them)
3) Create a new share with no public access, I called mine USERS
4) Go into the CIFS share properties and make sure default access is set to READ/WRITE, and DISABLE OPLOCKS, YES DISABLE OPLOCKS
5) Save it and log out of the NAS web interface
6) Log into a computer/server as Domain Admin and hit the nas via its UNC Path, i.e. "\\NAS"
7) Find the USERS share and right click on it and go to properties
8) Go to the security tab
9) Remove the "Everyone" group to strip the permissions (the NAS will add it back but with no permissions - this is OK)
10) Go to advanced
11) Add Domain Admins and give it full control (if you want your admins to be able to access the private files)
12) Add Domain Users and give it full control, BUT set it to THIS FOLDER ONLY (this will prevent users from seeing others private shares)
NOTE: Remember that the READYNAS adds the CREATOR/OWNER group by default, so this is why this will work
13) You are done with security settings, so apply and close all of this
14) Make sure your GPs are set up right if you use GPs to redirect docs (Mine is set to \\NAS\USERS\%USERNAME%\My Documents, with exclusive use turned OFF and do not move contents, and do not redirect to local when policy removed)
15) Have your users log in and test! It should work fine. Users can only see other users' folders if they navigate to the NAS, but cannot access them.
I hope this helps.
So... I think I figured out how to make this work. Specifically, I am trying to create Private home shares on the readynas which users' My Docs (and other personal files) are redirected to and can take offline with them when they leave the office with a mobile device.
The readynas is joined ot the domain, BTW.
I read up on OPLOCKS for serveral hours and tried to understand WHY I need it for shares and where it is best applied.
After reading this article:
http://www.superbase.com/services_tech_support_oplocks.htm
I decided that since the home shares are private and only being access by one user, OPLOCKS isnt really necessary.
Since no one in this thread (or others) have tried this WITHUOT OPLOCKS, I figured its worth a shot.
I did NOT disable windows serach in win 7, or SAMBA 2, or anything funky in registry.
Most of my users have UNDER 1 GB of DATA, but I have two users with 11GB + in their MY Docs and it worked fine for all users.
As soon as I DISABLED oplocks, the error about "file being used by another process" never came back when performing a sync.
Here is my setup:
1) Log into your NAS device (for arguments sake, I'll refer to mine as NAS)
2) DONT USE THE BUILT IN HOME SHARES! (they are REALLY a nice feature, but there is no GUI control over them)
3) Create a new share with no public access, I called mine USERS
4) Go into the CIFS share properties and make sure default access is set to READ/WRITE, and DISABLE OPLOCKS, YES DISABLE OPLOCKS
5) Save it and log out of the NAS web interface
6) Log into a computer/server as Domain Admin and hit the nas via its UNC Path, i.e. "\\NAS"
7) Find the USERS share and right click on it and go to properties
8) Go to the security tab
9) Remove the "Everyone" group to strip the permissions (the NAS will add it back but with no permissions - this is OK)
10) Go to advanced
11) Add Domain Admins and give it full control (if you want your admins to be able to access the private files)
12) Add Domain Users and give it full control, BUT set it to THIS FOLDER ONLY (this will prevent users from seeing others private shares)
NOTE: Remember that the READYNAS adds the CREATOR/OWNER group by default, so this is why this will work
13) You are done with security settings, so apply and close all of this
14) Make sure your GPs are set up right if you use GPs to redirect docs (Mine is set to \\NAS\USERS\%USERNAME%\My Documents, with exclusive use turned OFF and do not move contents, and do not redirect to local when policy removed)
15) Have your users log in and test! It should work fine. Users can only see other users' folders if they navigate to the NAS, but cannot access them.
I hope this helps.
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