using outlook on a home network

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Mike

I have a home network with both machines using Win XP
Home.

The desktop is the machine with the Outlook accounts
loaded.

I am trying to set this up so that I can access my
Outlook (e-mail, calendar, contacts) from the laptop.

I have tried many different options but can't get the
laptop to see the desktop files.

Can anyone help here?

Thank you,
Mike
 
Can you map the desktop drive to your laptop? If yes, then all you need to
do is find the .pst file on the desktop. Turn on searching hidden and
system files in Windows XP and look for a file with that extension.

Once you find it, make a note of its location. On the laptop, rename your
..pst file to .old or something familiar. Then, open Outlook and browse to
the .pst file on the desktop.

Note: You can only use one instance of Outlook at a time. Outlook .pst
files require exclusive read/write access.


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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Mike asked:

| I have a home network with both machines using Win XP
| Home.
|
| The desktop is the machine with the Outlook accounts
| loaded.
|
| I am trying to set this up so that I can access my
| Outlook (e-mail, calendar, contacts) from the laptop.
|
| I have tried many different options but can't get the
| laptop to see the desktop files.
|
| Can anyone help here?
|
| Thank you,
| Mike
 
Thanks for the start.

I mapped the folder containing the outlook.pst file to
the laptop, but I am getting a message saying "File
access is denied. You do not have the permission
required to access the file Z:\outlook.pst".

Is there some trick to this? I have Admin rights on both
machines.

I also don't know how to rename a file extension
anymore. I don't have any way to see this hidden folder
in a cmd window and if I try to rename the file in
Explorer it just adds it to the end of the filename but
still leaves it as a .pst extension.

Thanks again,
Mike
 
Thanks for the start.

I mapped the folder containing the outlook.pst file to
the laptop, but I am getting a message saying "File
access is denied. You do not have the permission
required to access the file Z:\outlook.pst".
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Make sure neither machine is running a firewall.
 
Both machines are running a firewall. I can't see that
going any other way.

The desktop uses NIS 2004 and the laptop has ZoneAlarm.

Is there some configuring that can be done to allow this
information to pass?

Thanks again,
Mike
 
Mike said:
The desktop uses NIS 2004 and the laptop has ZoneAlarm.
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Don't they ask you whether or not you should allow the network traffic?
ZoneAlarm, at least, should.
 
They both do, and they both are set up tp allow the
limited traffic.

I can even open the file on the laptop in Wordpad (it of
course takes forever, but it did open in it's own garbled
format).

Just for fun, I tried disabling both firewalls, but I get
the same message.

I don't know where else to go here. Both machines are
set up as "Corporate or Workgroup" environments. Is
there something in the settings that i should change,
maybe int eh security?

There has got to be a way for Outlook to access that
mapped drive.

Thanks again, and again,
Mike
 
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