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Some Files and Folders That Are Not Configured to Be Made Available Offline Are Cached

Article ID: 328284 - View products that this article applies to.

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SYMPTOMS

Some files and folders that are not configured to be cached (that is, to be made available offline) may be cached anyway. The CSCsniff tool shows that these files and folders have been system pinned (that is, Windows has automatically requested them).

Note The CSCsniff tool is a Microsoft Product Support Services (PSS) internal tool that support professionals can make available to customers for troubleshooting Offline File issues.

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CAUSE

This problem may occur if a file or folder that is configured to be cached contains a link to a file or folder that is hosted on a Distributed File System (DFS) share. The administrative caching algorithm (the admin-pin code) does not check to see whether a link target is “cacheable” before pinning it.

The following configuration allows files and folders to be cached:

The Disable user configuration of Offline files policy setting is enabled.
The Disable "Make available offline" policy setting is enabled.
The files and folders are listed in the Administratively assigned offline files policy setting.
The DFS shares are not explicitly configured to switch off the caching settings (that is, the Allow caching of files in this shared folder setting is enabled for these shares).

With this configuration in place, only the files and folders that are listed in the Administratively assigned offline files setting should be cached. The content of the DFS shares should not be cached because the first two policy settings prevent users from making files and folders that are on DFS shares available for offline use.

However, if the files and folders that are listed in the Administratively assigned offline files setting contain shortcuts (links) to files or folders that are located on the DFS shares, the linked-to target files or folders are also cached. This occurs even though the Windows Offline Files feature does not fully support the caching of files and folders on DFS shares.

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RESOLUTION

Service Pack Information

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

260910

(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/260910/EN-US/ )

How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack

Hotfix Information

A supported hotfix is available from Microsoft. However, this hotfix is intended to correct only the problem that is described in this article. Apply this hotfix only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem.

If the hotfix is available for download, there is a "Hotfix download available" section at the top of this Knowledge Base article. If this section does not appear, submit a request to Microsoft Customer Service and Support to obtain the hotfix.

Note If additional issues occur or if any troubleshooting is required, you might have to create a separate service request. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for this specific hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Customer Service and Support telephone numbers or to create a separate service request, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=support

(http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=support)

Note The "Hotfix download available" form displays the languages for which the hotfix is available. If you do not see your language, it is because a hotfix is not available for that language. The English version of this fix has the file attributes (or later) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in coordinated universal time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.

   Date         Time   Version        Size     File name
   ------------------------------------------------------
   01-Oct-2002  10:27  5.0.2195.6062  101,136  Cscdll.dll
   01-Oct-2002  10:27  5.0.2195.6076  238,864  Cscui.dll
   26-Sep-2002  11:24  5.0.2195.6073  371,856  Mrxsmb.sys
   26-Sep-2002  11:24  5.0.2195.6073  132,816  Rdbss.sys

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STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4.

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MORE INFORMATION

For additional information about how to obtain a hotfix for Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

265173

(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/265173/EN-US/ )

The Datacenter Program and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server Product

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