Hi all, I've just noticed several machines which all have offline files enabled (either for redirected folders or for laptops with mapped drives) have a problem whereby a notification pops up saying that 'You are now working offline'. This then means that access to the mapped drives is not possible-all other network access is fine-eg browsing the web and email is fine-just access to certain file servers(w2003) is not possible. This can be remedied easily(usually) by double clicking the Offline files icon in the systray and then synching files.
Now I've narrowed this down to the SMB signing between server/client and find that if I turn off the signing then the issue does not occur. A few related problems are that when certain users' passwords expire and they try to change the password they receive an error saying that the domain is not available. I can however, reset in Users and Comps and they're good to go. If they don't 'go online' first and synch up-they cannot themselves change the password. I don't want to leave SMB signing off and found a related hotfix http://web.archive.org/web/20030905131458/support.microsoft.com/default.aspx ?scid=kb;EN-US;810907 pertaining to this but only for XP1 making me assume that XP2 had fixed this-which doesn't seem to be the case as I'm still getting problems. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
