Work Server access from home.

I just started a new job and its my first time using a mac.
My employer has accounts set up with lion server in the office. they have given me a MacBook Pro. However i am unable to access my network account from home, unlike my previous job we used windows server and it had offline mode. and when i went into the office it all updated and synced together.
Can i suggest anything to my employer, or am I doing something wrong?
Cheers
Garrett

Windows has a built-in Sync capability which allows you to define a network folder as being available off-line i.e. when you are not in the office. As you say, when you are back in the office it will then 'sync' to the network folder and make any changes needed.
Mac OS X does not have built-in a similar feature but their are third-party utilities to do this. However before I get in to that, it is also possible to work in a different way.
Both Windows and Mac OS X allow setting things up so you can connect to the server remotely e.g. when at home, and in this case you would then be working 'on-line', with this approach no syncing would be needed as you would always be working with the real network folder. To do this you need a VPN server at the office, and you need to have a VPN client configured on your Mac, as Ralph says, for this approach you need to speak to your IT department.
Now getting back to the option of doing a similar syncing approach on a Mac. I have previously used a product called ChronoSync to do this on a Mac. Details can be found here -
http://econtechnologies.com/pages/cs/chrono_overview.html
This can be configured in numerous ways, but the way I used it and the way I suspect would be best for you is to have ChronoSync automatically do a sync between a folder on your laptop and the matching folder on your network server when you login to that server. So when you go back in to the office and login to the server it would then automatically trigger and do a sync.
ChronoSync is not free so you will have to again speak to your IT staff or manager about getting it purchased. It does not need any special setup on the server end.

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