Unable open Outlook 2003 PST file over the network

[Guest]

For about a year now I have been happily opening my PST file in Outllok 2003
from another networked PC using the UNC reference back to the 'home' computer.

All of a suidden it's decided it will fail. It opens the PST file but takes
up to 40 seconds or more (seems forever while waiting) and sometimes I can
browse a few emails but in the end it reports

"Cannot start the reminder service. Unable to show reminders. The reminders
folder could not be found. An error occurred that prevented the
\\Maestro\Mail\Outlook\MailFile2003.pst from being saved. Close and then
restart all mail-enabled appl..."

The PST file resides on a PC called Maestro and can be seen thru a share
called "Mail" and I'm accessing it from a different PC.

I've tried disabling reminders on the remote machine but I assume it's not
giving me enough time to save the change back thru the network before failing.

Is Outlook timing out because the PST file hit some magical size limit? It
is ~120MB in size.

Any ideas how else I can share the same \mail file acros different machines
on my home network?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Personal folder files are unsupported over a LAN or over a WAN link:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297019/en-us

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Ludwig asked:

| For about a year now I have been happily opening my PST file in
| Outllok 2003 from another networked PC using the UNC reference back
| to the 'home' computer.
|
| All of a suidden it's decided it will fail. It opens the PST file
| but takes up to 40 seconds or more (seems forever while waiting) and
| sometimes I can browse a few emails but in the end it reports
|
| "Cannot start the reminder service. Unable to show reminders. The
| reminders folder could not be found. An error occurred that
| prevented the \\Maestro\Mail\Outlook\MailFile2003.pst from being
| saved. Close and then restart all mail-enabled appl..."
|
| The PST file resides on a PC called Maestro and can be seen thru a
| share called "Mail" and I'm accessing it from a different PC.
|
| I've tried disabling reminders on the remote machine but I assume
| it's not giving me enough time to save the change back thru the
| network before failing.
|
| Is Outlook timing out because the PST file hit some magical size
| limit? It is ~120MB in size.
|
| Any ideas how else I can share the same \mail file acros different
| machines on my home network?

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the quick reply, & link. Much appreciated Milly.

Pretty conclusive answer to my question! (Pity though, I'm in a home-use
situation with no Exchange server; probably need to head down the RDP line
now I guess).