Outlook 2002 pst file on network share problem

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Hans Pesata

Hi!

I have a small LAN with a LINUX serevr and SAMBA acting as fileserver.
die clients have WINDOWS XP Pro SP2 and Office XP SP3 installed.

the Outlook PST files are located on the LINUX-server, the access is made
via a mapped network drive using SAMBA.

when I start Outlook right after logging in to a client-.machine,
Outlook displays an error.message, telling me that the PST file isnt
available.
afterwards it opens a file-open-dialog which of course contains the
necessary PST file on
the server-share and after clicking "open" everything works fine.
the whole problem just occurs at the 1st start of Outlook...

what can I do to get rid of this nasty problem, why doesnt Outlook find the
available PST file at the 1st start ?

any hints on how to solve this would be greatly appreciated,
thanx ina advance!

best regards,
Hans
 
Hans Pesata said:
I have a small LAN with a LINUX serevr and SAMBA acting as fileserver.
die clients have WINDOWS XP Pro SP2 and Office XP SP3 installed.

the Outlook PST files are located on the LINUX-server, the access is
made via a mapped network drive using SAMBA.
Click to expand...

Completely unsupported and you're running the risk of PST corruption.
 
Hi Brian!
Completely unsupported and you're running the risk of PST corruption.
Click to expand...

thanx for your reply!

I have done this very often in different environments.NT4.0/2000 servers or
LINUX/SAMBA
servers wirh WINDOWS 2000 Pro clients running with no problems.
this time I am using WINDOWS XP Pro for the clients and ran into the
described problems.

I realized, that my problem was related to the fact, that the LAN-connection
is established via a WLAN
and somehow this starts pretty late after logging in and therefore soem
resources havent been available.
I changed some settings for the WLAN.stuff and it works now.

best regards,
Hans
 
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