Outlook 2002 pst file on network share problem

[Hans Pesata]

Hi!

I have a small LAN with a LINUX serevr and SAMBA acting as fileserver.
die clients have WINDOWS XP Pro SP2 and Office XP SP3 installed.

the Outlook PST files are located on the LINUX-server, the access is made
via a mapped network drive using SAMBA.

when I start Outlook right after logging in to a client-.machine,
Outlook displays an error.message, telling me that the PST file isnt
available.
afterwards it opens a file-open-dialog which of course contains the
necessary PST file on
the server-share and after clicking "open" everything works fine.
the whole problem just occurs at the 1st start of Outlook...

what can I do to get rid of this nasty problem, why doesnt Outlook find the
available PST file at the 1st start ?

any hints on how to solve this would be greatly appreciated,
thanx ina advance!

best regards,
Hans

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have a small LAN with a LINUX serevr and SAMBA acting as fileserver.
die clients have WINDOWS XP Pro SP2 and Office XP SP3 installed.

the Outlook PST files are located on the LINUX-server, the access is
made via a mapped network drive using SAMBA.

Completely unsupported and you're running the risk of PST corruption.

 

[Hans Pesata]

Hi Brian!

Completely unsupported and you're running the risk of PST corruption.

thanx for your reply!

I have done this very often in different environments.NT4.0/2000 servers or
LINUX/SAMBA
servers wirh WINDOWS 2000 Pro clients running with no problems.
this time I am using WINDOWS XP Pro for the clients and ran into the
described problems.

I realized, that my problem was related to the fact, that the LAN-connection
is established via a WLAN
and somehow this starts pretty late after logging in and therefore soem
resources havent been available.
I changed some settings for the WLAN.stuff and it works now.

best regards,
Hans