Ideas 4 using OE on a home network?

Just set up a basic home WLAN network: our wired main PC (computer "A "), a new wireless notebook for our daughter (computer "B "), - both running XP Home SP2 - connected through a wireless "g" router. The router is connected to a cable modem. Computer "A" is set up with 3 log-ons, and we've been using OE Xpress with 3 user accounts for email.

Daughter would like to access her email through computer "B ". What options do I have for setting this up? If any of these options include having all of her old messages and her address book entries - along with all new messages and entries - available on "B ", that would be great.

From what I've been reading, she can't actually access the OExpress program on "A" and use it while working on "B "; is this correct?

Is my only option to export/import her messages and wab to the new computer, and set up a new user account for her on the new computer's OExpress, or are there other options?

If I have to go the export/import route, what's the easiest way to do that: through our network? via a CD-RW?

If I have to, how do I set up her new OExpress on the new computer "B" so that it can get and receive messages from our ISP? We DON'T want some of her messages ending up on computer "A ", while most end up on "B ".

Best tutorials for locating/copying/exporting the right data and files?

Thanks so much. I look forward to reading your suggestions.

 

Unfortunately in Outlook Express, you do not have the option to put the store folder on a networked computer.

The store folder location for Outlook Express can be found by clicking on, in OE, Tools ---> options ---> maintainence ---> store folder. If you had Microsoft Outlook, then you could have one data file (.pst) that the E-mail account on both machines uses. Therefore, everytime you accessed your E-mail, it would be the same on both computers.

Easiest thing, for me at least, would be to copy the Outlook Express store folder from "Computer A" over to "Computer B ".

Hope this helps.

 

Thanks. It's not the answer I was hoping for, but I was beginning to suspect that this was the case...

So, is it OK to set up OE on the new computer to download email exactly the same way that the old computer is set up? Just look up the connection settings on the wired computer and copy them onto the notebook?

Once I've copied the store folder from computer "A ", do I then find the location of the store folder on computer "B" - using the same method you've described - and replace it with the new one, or do I copy all of the contents from the store folder from "A" and paste them into the store folder on "B "?

Sorry if this is such a basic question; I just don't want to mess it up.

 

The router is connected to a cable modem.

If this is indeed the case then each PC can be ( should be ) set up as an individual machine depending on the other for nothing.

If the case be that you are ( have been ) using ANY FORM of ICS ( internet connection sharing ) Get rid of it.

The NIC setting should be set for "Auto Obtain Address "

That is the better way.

That is not a good idea to do with ANY E-Mail. Plus again, with the Router it is not necessary.

Plus think about what would happen if machine "A" goes down.

I have three machines on my LAN. Two 98SE and one XP pro. NONE of them depend on any other for anything. Thanks to the Router.

BillyBob

 

BillyBob,

Thanks for your answers to my questions. (I see you're just down the road from me!)

No, I don't use any form of ICS. I'm pretty sure that my "NIC" (whatever that is; a setting in my router software? In my internet connection?) is set for "Auto Obtain Address " (we don't have a static IP address; in fact, our cable company - maybe yours too, RR - doesn't give us that option.

Thanks again. I appreciate everyone's help. I guess I've got my plan set now. I'll set up the email program this weekend, and repost if I have a problem.

 

Thanks for your answers to my questions. (I see you're just down the road from me!)

You are welcome. And yes we are not too far apart.

BillyBob

 

Mozilla Thunderbird has a setting for allowing you to leave email on the server. Daughter could have settings on A to leave mail on the server and B can be set to download or to leave on the server for a certain number of days.

 

But Thunderbird is like OE in the respect that we can't have access to the same store of [already downloaded] messages from both computers, right?