Accessing Outlook
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Accessing Outlook
I make extensive use of Outlook as my home diary - I keep the Outlook on my main computer up to date as the master. With several home computers networked, does anyone know of a way to access my master Outlook diary from the other computers via the network?
Main W2K/Office 2K Pro, Laptop XP, other W98...
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From: London
Are you already using Windows file and printer sharing?
If so I would suggest keeping your Outlook.pst (and Archive.pst) files in a shared directory on your main computer.
Then you can permanently map a network drive to this directory on each of the other computers. And tell Outlook on each of those to look in this location for Outlook.pst (and Archive.pst). You can tell Outlook where to look for these files by right-clicking on the Outlook desktop icon. Choose Properties > Data Files.
However, you could run into trouble if you have Outlook running simultaneously running on more than one PC and they simultaneously try to access these files.
If so I would suggest keeping your Outlook.pst (and Archive.pst) files in a shared directory on your main computer.
Then you can permanently map a network drive to this directory on each of the other computers. And tell Outlook on each of those to look in this location for Outlook.pst (and Archive.pst). You can tell Outlook where to look for these files by right-clicking on the Outlook desktop icon. Choose Properties > Data Files.
However, you could run into trouble if you have Outlook running simultaneously running on more than one PC and they simultaneously try to access these files.
