Susan,

        Is this applicable if their is no Exchange Server? This is a peer-to-peer
network with no server. Each person has a profile built in Exchange that
point to a local .PST and .PAB file on their machine. The second profile
points to the bosses .PST file via a mapping across the network. The
procudure outlined below seems similiar to what i have done when there is an
Exchange Server involved. I thank you for your time and your input!

Greg Anderson
GALA Enterprise
Quality Computer Service & Repair
Phone - 916-684-8647
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Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 10:31
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Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Network Problems(?)


If I understand your post correctly, I don't think you quite set up the
shared personal folder the way Microsoft suggests. (I will assume Office 97
here, since you didn't specify.)

The following is borrowed from the Help file and edited....it makes one or
two assumptions about your situation, but I hope it's helpful regardless.
This refers to the Outlook calendar.
(In Outlook...)

1. On the File menu, point to Open Special Folder, and then click Exchange
Server Folder.
2. In the Name box, type the name of the person who granted you delegate
access permission, or click Name to select from a list. (Note from Susan:
You may or may not want to read a bit about Delegate access versus shared
private folders and public folders...also in the Help.)
3. In the Folder box, click Calendar.


If you manage the Calendars of several people, you can create a new group on
the Outlook Bar and store Shortcuts to their Calendars there. Right-click
the background of the Outlook Bar, and then click Add New Group on the
shortcut menu. Drag the Calendar Shortcuts you created into this new group.

You can have Outlook automatically open another person's Calendar (or any
Outlook folder) when you start Outlook. Just leave the folder window open
when you exit Outlook.

If you have author or editor permission, any items you create while the
shared Calendar is active are stored in the other person's Calendar.

Hope I'm on the right track.

Susan Sutherland


>The customer then asks me to set up his "Personal Folder" file
>(*.pst) to be shared. This would allow his staff to view and edit his
>calendar for appointments. I moved the file to it's own directory and
>marked
>the directory shared. Now I built profiles on the other 4 PC's so they can
>choose the profile that will access his ".PST" file across the network to
>allow them to view/update his calendar. We were able to make it work on all
>4 PC's at least once. Then we started to get the error "cannot access
>because another process has locked a portion of the file". I went to each
>of
>the machines and closed OUTLOOK on all of them and tried again. I still get
>the message above. I then did a "Ctrl" + "Alt" + "Delete" to view the task
>list on each machine one at a time. I found on several occassions that one
>machine and one machine only would show the"OUTLOOK" task still running
>even
>though Outlook itself wasnt active on the desktop or taskbar. I killed that
>task ("END TASK"), and found that we could share the file again. But
>invariably we would run into that error message when user 1 would end
>Outlook and start the other profile for their own calendar/mail and then a
>different user would attempt to access the shared *.PST file across the
>network.
>         The network seems to be fine since it is allowing printers to be
>shared,
>other directories are being used to hold documents and templates that are
>shared. The problem is that this error is now happening every time they try
>to access the shared *.PST across the network. We are no longer finding the
>"Outlook" task running on any of the machines. I am running low on ideas as
>to why we cant share this file, or what on the network could be causing
>this
>problem. The folder is marked shared with full access, the file itself
>(*.pst) is not marked read only. And as I stated earlier, it worked for a
>

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