samba - Jan 2009 - Problem with offline drive

Hi !
I hope that someone will be abble to help me with the problem I get with my 
samba machines, though it is not really a samba problem.
Here is the config I use :
I'm running a samba controler on a rhel 5 machine (rpm -qa says 
samba-3.0.33-3.7.el5) which acts as a domain controler.
My machines, all windows XP use to be connected to this controler. I have no 
problem with them. The problem occurs with laptops.
Indeed, we have some drives mapped to the domain controler. The one that 
causes problem is the M: drive, on which is stored the profile of thunderbird.
When the laptop is connected to the network, no problems. Thunderbird works 
just fine. All mails are here. 
When the laptop is out of the office, connected or not to another network 
doesn't change anything, thunderbird shows a weird interface, there are 
missing mails, missing folders on the left view and so on.
When I connected the M: drive to \\server\mail, I right-clicked on the M: 
drive in the "My computer" view and selected the option to have this
drive
offline. When I'm disconnected of the network, I can walk in this drive and 
see all the files that belongs to thunderbird. I even can view the content of 
individual files with notepad for example.
Is there anyone here either to help me or to direct me to another place where 
I could find help for this peculiar topic ?
I've of course searched the web, read many things about offline drives, but 
found nothing helpfull.
Thanks in advance for any help provided.

That's a windows caching function

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307853




On Jan 29, 2009 8:02am, BOURIAUD <david.bouriaud@ac-rouen.fr>
wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I hope that someone will be abble to help me with the problem I get with  
my
>
> samba machines, though it is not really a samba problem.
>
> Here is the config I use :
>
> I'm running a samba controler on a rhel 5 machine (rpm -qa says
>
> samba-3.0.33-3.7.el5) which acts as a domain controler.
>
> My machines, all windows XP use to be connected to this controler. I have  
no
>
> problem with them. The problem occurs with laptops.
>
> Indeed, we have some drives mapped to the domain controler. The one that
>
> causes problem is the M: drive, on which is stored the profile of  
thunderbird.
>
> When the laptop is connected to the network, no problems. Thunderbird  
works
>
> just fine. All mails are here.
>
> When the laptop is out of the office, connected or not to another network
>
> doesn't change anything, thunderbird shows a weird interface, there are
>
> missing mails, missing folders on the left view and so on.
>
> When I connected the M: drive to \\server\mail, I right-clicked on the M:
>
> drive in the "My computer" view and selected the option to have
this drive
>
> offline. When I'm disconnected of the network, I can walk in this drive
and
>
> see all the files that belongs to thunderbird. I even can view the  
content of
>
> individual files with notepad for example.
>
> Is there anyone here either to help me or to direct me to another place  
where
>
> I could find help for this peculiar topic ?
>
> I've of course searched the web, read many things about offline drives,
but
>
> found nothing helpfull.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help provided.
>
>
>
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Am Thursday 29 January 2009 17:02:09 schrieb BOURIAUD:
> Hi !
> I hope that someone will be abble to help me with the problem I get with my
> samba machines, though it is not really a samba problem.
> Here is the config I use :
> I'm running a samba controler on a rhel 5 machine (rpm -qa says
> samba-3.0.33-3.7.el5) which acts as a domain controler.
> My machines, all windows XP use to be connected to this controler. I have
> no problem with them. The problem occurs with laptops.
> Indeed, we have some drives mapped to the domain controler. The one that
> causes problem is the M: drive, on which is stored the profile of
Bad. Storing mail databases on network drives (in particular when they become 
bigger) or storing them on a roaming profile path is not supported for 
Microsofts e-mail programs. Even though Thunderbird/Mozilla don't
explicitely
forbid it, it is also bad for Thunderbird.
You would be far better with plain local storage and synchronization or 
imap/offline imap.
As a workaround, change the mail profile to a local path and use Microsoft 
synctoy to sync with the path in M: when online.
For Gods sake, disable offline file function in XP.