I am putting together a home network with a Linksys draft N router w/ a
shared hard drive. I would like to be able to access my outlook mailbox from
multiple computers on my network, hopefully by using the common hard drive.
Can this be done without a full server / microsoft exchange -based solution?
thanks

It can be done, but it's not recommended, and the .PST file cannot be
accessed by more than one copy of Outlook at a time. See
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm for more information on the
sharing topic.

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"PL317" wrote:

> I am putting together a home network with a Linksys draft N router w/ a
> shared hard drive. I would like to be able to access my outlook mailbox from
> multiple computers on my network, hopefully by using the common hard drive.
> Can this be done without a full server / microsoft exchange -based solution?
> thanks
>

Thanks. Very helpful link and related info there. Do you say "not
recommended" because of the potential for file conflicts with multiple
computers attempting to access the file at the same time or for some other
reason?

thank you.

"Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

> It can be done, but it's not recommended, and the .PST file cannot be
> accessed by more than one copy of Outlook at a time. See
> http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm for more information on the
> sharing topic.
>
> --
> Jocelyn Fiorello
> MVP - Outlook
>
> *** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered -- please reply
> only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread. ***
>
>
> "PL317" wrote:
>
> > I am putting together a home network with a Linksys draft N router w/ a
> > shared hard drive. I would like to be able to access my outlook mailbox from
> > multiple computers on my network, hopefully by using the common hard drive.
> > Can this be done without a full server / microsoft exchange -based solution?
> > thanks
> >

"PL317" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Thanks. Very helpful link and related info there. Do you say "not
> recommended" because of the potential for file conflicts with multiple
> computers attempting to access the file at the same time or for some other
> reason?
>

Outlook needs read/write access at all times to the pst file - if the
network drops just for a nano-second while Outlook is writing to the pst
file, it will get corrupted.