Hi. Currently we're experiencing an issue with the offline-to-online transition with offline files. THis is affecting laptop users who go home, connect via VPN and cannot access mapped drives. The drives are mapped to DFS shares (e.g., \\local.com\dfsroot\work) via a login script. On the lan users can access their mapped drives. When the user connects via VPN, offline files is supposed to know its on the office network and go online but it does not. When they try to access a network drive they get a "X:\ refers to a location that is unavailable...". We have the netbios ports open on the firewall so DFS resolution should work. Any ideas?

Hello We have the same Problem...any ideas??? Regards

So do we - pretty annoying. They still can connect by using the IP-adress in a "run"-box though.

I have had this problem for several months now. The systems have all been Windows 7 Professional 32-bit. This is what I have found to be the problem. The computer is testing for the connection to be a slow connection every (default) 5 minutes. As far as our group policy goes, the box is automatically checked to "automatically work offline" when the connection is slow. For the user, I changed the setting to check the connection every 180 minutes to ease the pain. To work online, go to Windows Explorer and click the "Work online" button that is up top (but under the address bar).

Hello All, I am having the same issue with a Win7 box, if i may ask Yo voi, how are you navigating within Windows 7 to change the slow connection settings?

A little late to the party but I just dealt with DFS folder access issues over VPN. I found that my solution was to make sure the DNS server used by VPN clients for name resolution has a replica of the DFS root that users are trying to access. If your VPN clients use their primary DNS server with IP of 192.168.0.10, make sure you have the root share for \\local.com\dfsroot setup on 192.168.0.10. From there, i believe your clients should be able to access the \work subfolder and hopefully the offline to online transition will resolve itself after that.