Sharing a pst between two PC's

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Richard Fitzgerald

I currently use Outlook (in IMO mode rather than
Corporate Workgroup mode). I have a desktop and a laptop
connected by a wireless network and would like to access
my email, including all my stored messages, from either
machine. I don't have an email server or back-office
software, and want to avoid a complex or expensive set-
up.
I have tried creating a shared folder on the desktop for
storing the .pst file, then defining this as
the "service" on the lap-top. This works, but is very
slow and I get a lot of error messages, time-outs etc.
Is there a better way to do this? Should I be using
something other than Outlook? Would Outlook Express be
an improvement?
 
Richard,

have a look on this site:
http://www.jimthompson.net/xphome/Two_Computers.htm

for other Third Party sharing solution:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm

If you share the same PST file from different Workstations, maybe this
articles could be interesting:

This article (http://support.microsoft.com/?id=297019) says Network PSTs are
bad.

This article (http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/xp/four/outd05.htm)
supports the use of Network PSTs.

We get no problem with network PST files since a few years (our experience)

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This works, but is very
slow and I get a lot of error messages, time-outs etc.
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Does both computers have the same systemtime and the same timezone?
 
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