Can I share my Outlook Express folders on a network?

I use a public share folder setup from http://www.publicshareware.com/ and it is free, to a certain extent. It works a dream.

Thanks.

I have a win2000 server and winxp clients in a network, nw i want to configer outlook express in such a way that winxp clients can access outlook express but outlook express data has to be stored in server.i.e-outlook express data should not be stored in client.plz give me some good solution,plz inform any s/ws required for the setup

This can be done by setting one machine on the network to use the other machines storage folder. The change is in the registry ... REGEDIT to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{CLSID}\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\5.0. Double-click the item labeled "Store Root" in the right pane and in the dialog box that opens, type the full path to your network mail folder location

I have an OE question similar to this but about having OE on a different drive as opposed to a server. You or the respondents to the server question will probably have knowledge of the different drive question. Because of my work, I use several different computers (PC and laptop) in several locations and want to know if I can park OE on an external drive so that I can use OE on either of them in any place where I can log on. If I can move the OE folder to a drive other than C, can I move it to an external drive? I have been searching the Internet and this is one of only two threads that come anywhere near it. I am using XP Pro SP2 on both computers. This thread is now old, so I might not get an answer but it's worth a try.
Thanks
Les Harris

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I believe you can. Best bet: give it a try. :-)

Leo

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Leo,

I bit the bullet and tried it. There some work-arounds, but it seems to have worked, using a 5 GB Seagate Pocket drive, which is S drive on this computer. (I am running XP Pro.)

I opened OE, Options, Maintenance, Store Folder, Store Location, Browse for Folder. The Browse for Folder window lists all locations on the computer and has buttons for OK and Cancel at the bottom.

When I selected the Seagate drive, the OK button grayed out – not available. After some head scratching, I found that I could make the Seagate drive available in the Shared Documents folder.

It then appears as C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Removable Disc (S)\Outlook Express

Somewhat to my astonishment, it works!!

Thanks for your encouragement because I doubt that I would have tried it otherwise.

Les Harris

Dear Leo,

I would like to ask, it's possible we mapping the data identity mail outlook express or profile microsoft outlook in to another pc/server via network ? If using hdd external it's possible. Thanks.

Rgds,

Rudy Tambunan

I have a home network. One computer is running Winbdows XP proffessional and the other is runnung xp Home . The main comp is the home one. How do I get the address book from the Home comp to the Proff comp? HELP

Hi Leo

In a post dated 20-09-07 Less Harris Wrote:

"I bit the bullet and tried it. There some work-arounds, but it seems to have worked, using a 5 GB Seagate Pocket drive, which is S drive on this computer. (I am running XP Pro.)

I opened OE, Options, Maintenance, Store Folder, Store Location, Browse for Folder. The Browse for Folder window lists all locations on the computer and has buttons for OK and Cancel at the bottom.

When I selected the Seagate drive, the OK button grayed out – not available. After some head scratching, I found that I could make the Seagate drive available in the Shared Documents folder.

It then appears as C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Removable Disc (S)\Outlook Express

Somewhat to my astonishment, it works!!

Thanks for your encouragement because I doubt that I would have tried it otherwise."

Can you advise how how to make an external drive available in the Shared Documents folder.

I am trying to do exactly the ame as what Les did.

Cheers Phil

tried to share the addressbook only.
tried in a ADS setting.
it works indeed for the first couple of hours, but it seems concurrent write access corrupts the database.
as a result outlook express wont work in the whole domain....
great