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Offline Files and Windows Vista / 7

Offline robwellesley

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Offline Files and Windows Vista / 7
« on: October 22, 2009, 05:02:22 AM »
With Windows 7 we were getting "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process." error

This fixed it...

SME Server should be 7.4

Set the following registry key on the Windows Vista or 7 client to prevent files from getting pulled down to the client again right after synchronizing changes to the server (due to Linux file systems having coarser timestamp resolution than Windows):
Create a DWORD value named RoundUpWriteTimeOnSync under the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\NetCache key (create the key if it does not exist) and set it to 1.

Usual disclaimers apply......

source http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/archive/2007/03/16/using-offline-files-with-samba-emc-servers-nas-devices.aspx

Offline Stefano

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Re: Offline Files and Windows Vista / 7
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2009, 08:51:33 AM »
good tip, should be in the wiki but OT here ;-)

Offline chris burnat

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Re: Offline Files and Windows Vista / 7
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2009, 09:53:56 AM »
Moving to General Discussions.
- chris
If it does not work out of the box, please fill in a Bug Report @ Bugzilla (http://bugs.contribs.org)  - check: http://wiki.contribs.org/Bugzilla_Help .  Thanks.

Offline piran

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Re: Offline Files and Windows Vista / 7
« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2009, 02:09:53 PM »
With Windows 7 we were getting "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process." error

This fixed it...

SME Server should be 7.4

Set the following registry key on the Windows Vista or 7 client to prevent files from getting pulled down to the client again right after synchronizing changes to the server (due to Linux file systems having coarser timestamp resolution than Windows):
Create a DWORD value named RoundUpWriteTimeOnSync under the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\NetCache key (create the key if it does not exist) and set it to 1.

Usual disclaimers apply......

source http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/archive/2007/03/16/using-offline-files-with-samba-emc-servers-nas-devices.aspx

Am awaiting delivery of Windows7 Ultimate 64bit to update a
Windows2000 SP4 box. Is the tweak 32bit or 64bit specific?

Offline jester

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Re: Offline Files and Windows Vista / 7
« Reply #4 on: October 22, 2009, 02:11:04 PM »