Accessing Outlook mail from two networked PCs

[talacrush]

I have two PCs, one in the house and one in my garage and they are networked
through a Belkin modem/router. I want to be able to look at my e-mails on
both PCs but as soon as I load up one Outlook all my mails of course get
downloaded to that PC. So I end up with some mails on one PC and some on the
other.

How can I configure my PCs so that all e-mails sent and downloaded can be
seen on both machines? I'm sure it must be possible ... just too dumb to
work it out :-(

tia

 

[Brian Tillman]

How can I configure my PCs so that all e-mails sent and downloaded
can be seen on both machines? I'm sure it must be possible ... just
too dumb to work it out :-(

There are two ways. The simplest is to have your PCs leave copies of the
message on the server so that the message is there for the other to download
as well. That setting is on the Advanced tab of your account properties
pages.

The other way, to chich Christian alludes, is unsupported, but may work.
Create a network share on one PC. With Outlook closed, move the PST on the
machine hosting the network share to the shared folder. Start Outlook and
when it complains that it can't find the PST, browse to it in its new
location, select it, and click OK. In the other PC, rename the PST to
something else (keeping the ".pst" extension so you can open it again if
needed) and start Outlook. When it complains, browse to the network-shared
PST, select it and click OK. That PC will now access exactly the same
message store as the first. As Christian says, you can't have Outlook open
on both machines with this arrangement.