No Sync Option

[bphata]

When I go to File/Sync in OneNote there are no options except offline. So I
took out my new Office 2007 for Dummies book and you guessed it NOTHING under
Sync or syncing.

So I click on you all, got any ideas how to sync when it isn't giving me an
option. Thank heavens for the internet.
Bill in Las Vegas

 

[Ilya Koulchin]

When I go to File/Sync in OneNote there are no options except offline.

The sync options are not available unless you have remote notebooks
open. What are you trying to sync to?

Ilya

 

[bphata]

I was hoping if they were synced I might be able to work in one room for a
while, and another room later. I have multiple computers and something
on-going in every room would be great.
Thanks again,
Bill in Las Vegas

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

You can do that if both/all computers can access a common file share. Just
locate a shared notebook there and open it on each machine. Then the sync
will work.

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[bphata]

I'm not sure I understand this, my One Note stuff isn't in my Shared Folder,
is it supposed to be???

I think I'm really going to enjoy these new programs (Office) once I learn
how to use them, really could have used a Manual. ;-)
Thanks Ben,
Bill in Las Vegas

 

[bphata]

Ben,
I rushed off to try what you said and guess what, I don't have a shared
folder on my new HP Notebook. What do I do to put one in? Better yet where
did it go? No wonder I can't get things to working. So many question, WHY
can't I find the Shared Folder, WHERE did it go, WHO took it???
Thanks Ben,
Bill in Las Vegas

 

[bphata]

There is no SHARED FOLDER in Vista, its public.
windows help and how to/switching between home and workplace networks...

"The Shared Documents folder has been replaced with the Public folder in
Windows Vista."

So I have to open the shared (in XP) and the Public (Vista) to sync???
Bill in Las Vegas

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP]

You need to be able to see the same folder (Public Folder in Vista for
instance) from both machines. Try connecting to that public folder from the
XP machine. If you can see it, then locate the OneNote notebook that you
want to share in that folder and open it from both machines.

 

[bphata]

Wellll no, I have one computer that is a New Gateway (with Vista), One is a
New HP (with Vista), One is a 3 year old HP (with XP). If I share with the
two Vistas the XP has no Public/Public Documents to go to. Got any suggestion
for this one???
Thanks
Bill in Las Vegas

 

[bphata]

I can copy stuff into the shared folders from Windows Explore but if I go
through the drill of mailing an invite to the other computers I see the No
Permission warning and that is as far as I get. It doesn't show up in the
other OneNotes on the other comuters. I feel so stupid.
Bill in Las Vegas

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP]

Have you gone through this article:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote/HA100910951033.aspx?

--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com

 

[bphata]

Yes I've tried every thing, now I just copy each file to public/shared and
grab it from the individual computers. This new vista all flash no bang. I've
had a couple of tech by setting up some other things and what they did was
take out vista and put in XP. I may do that as well.
Thanks,
Bill in Las Vegas

 

[Josh Einstein]

I don't understand how people are having all these vista problems. I have
installed Vista on no less than 5 machines and they all work very well.
There's a couple annoyances like disk activity and battery life but it all
works. Personally, I think if your technician's solution to a problem is to
uninstall Vista and install XP then you should probably find a better
technician.

Anyhow, here's the deal. "Shared Documents" and "Public" in Vista are the
same concept, they're just named differently. These folders are accessible
to all other users on the computer. It has nothing at all to do with network
sharing. To share a folder, you can go into the Network and Sharing Center.
There you can turn on file sharing and public folder sharing. This exposes
the user and public folders on the network so that they can be accessed from
another computer.

But now of course Vista doesn't just expose the folders to anyone on the
network. If that were the case, anybody in a Starbucks could access them
while you're on the same access point. So how does one computer get access
to another? Well you need to have user accounts on both machines with the
same username and password. So if your username is "John Doe" and you have a
password of "mypassword" on Computer 1, then you need to have a user account
with the same password on Computer 2. Then you can browse to shared folders
on the other computer and you'll have the same permissions as if you were on
the computer locally.

How this applies to OneNote is that on one computer you've got all your
notebooks stored locally, on the other computer you can open the shared
notebook by doing File -> Open Notebook then type something like
\\COMPUTER2\John Doe\Documents\OneNote Notebooks\Etc (you can browse for it
too, or your email link should work).

By the way, this behavior is exactly the same as Windows XP except that
Vista provides a much more user friendly user interface to enable sharing.

I'm not a networking expert by any means but I do this all the time. I have
a desktop, a Tablet PC, and a UMPC all sync'd up this way.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Josh Einstein shared these words of wisdom:

I don't understand how people are having all these vista problems.

I'm with you!!

Rainald

 

[bphata]

Excuse me for mr einstein, i didn't mean to hurt your feelings. I won't post
again.
William Patterson
http://www.billpattersonshata.com/Home.htm

 

[Josh Einstein]

That's not a very mature response. Not sure if you read past the first
sentence of my reply or not, but I gave a pretty in-depth description of the
network sharing features of Windows and how they really aren't that
different between XP and Vista. If all you wanna hear is "Vista sucks, go
get XP", I won't say that. I tried to help. The bottom line is Vista is here
to stay. Going back to XP won't solve your problem.