Windows 2000 Magazine UPDATE, February 1, 2000 [3/3]
Konstantin Gusev
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* HOT THREAD: PROBLEMS WITH OFFLINE FOLDERS
The following text is from a recent threaded discussion on the Windows
2000 Magazine online forums (http://www.win2000mag.com/support).
January 14, 2000, 03:55 A.M.
Problems with Offline Folders
I'm administering a Windows 2000 beta LAN with one root, one child
domain, 10 terminal clients, 10 Win2K Professional workstations, and 70
mobile clients all running Win2K Pro (all beta 3). I plan to configure
the mobile user home-folders as offline-folders. I discovered some
problems.
1. Where is the client-site cache (CSC)? Microsoft explains that you
will find it at %systemroot%\csc, but it isn't there. Where can I find
the CSC folder?
2. My users' home-folders' size is limited with disk quotas. To avoid
problems, I have to limit the size of the client site cache on the
mobile clients. I tried this with the offline-folder group policy but
it doesn't work. Although you can see the limitation to the CSC in
ControlPanel/FolderOptions\OfflineFolders after a reboot of the client
set by the group policy, I can store as much data as I want into the
offline home folder during an offline session. When I log on again, and
this data is synchronized with the home-folder on the server, the
synchronization stops when the users' disk quota is full. The only way
to roll this back is to increase the users' disk quota by an
administrator. No solution for a production environment.
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* TIP: MAKING THE NT WINDOW FOCUS FOLLOW A MOUSE
(contributed by Nicholas Kohner, snowboa...@hotmail.com)
How can I make the Windows NT window focus follow my mouse?
1. Run Regedit.
2. Open HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse.
3. Double-click on ActiveWindowTracking.
4. Enter 1 in the Value data box.
5. Click OK.
6. Close the Registry editor.
7. Reboot.
Do you have a great tip for using Windows NT or Windows 2000? Let the
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