Re: Tricky Outlook Question

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From: Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] (russval_at_mvps.org)
Date: 02/19/04


Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 06:27:33 -0500

PST files must have read/write access. Accordingly, you can't open one from
a CD.
You must move it to a hard drive and remove its read only attribute.

-- 
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Thmn" <Thmn.11v0e1@outlookforum.com> wrote in message
news:Thmn.11v0e1@outlookforum.com...
>
> Here's my question, thanks in advanced for the help.
>
> I have just been assigned a project that I thought was going to be
> relatively simple.  I am supposed to take a pst file that contains
> inbox data from 5 different users and copy it to a CD-R so that anyone
> can open it anywhere at any time.  Well I created the file, and that
> worked just fine.  I can open it on my workstation when it's saved to
> my harddrive or anywhere else on the network.  The problem is that when
> the file is copied to a CD and tried to open from any computer, a
> workstation defined on our internal network, or any other machine, I
> receive the following message:
>
> "File access is denied.  You do not have permission required to access
> the file e:\xxxxx.pst"
>
> I assume it has something to do with the security settings on the pst
> file, but I don't know what I need to change to allow it to open on any
> machine.  Right now access is granted to "Everyone" which is actually
> not everyone but limited to anyone in our internal.xxxxx.net/Builtin,
> internal.xxxxx.net/Users, internal.xxxxx.net/MyBusiness/Groups.
>
> I would like to know how to fix this.  Am I right in assuming that if I
> take all security off that it will open on any machine?  And if that is
> correct how do I do that?  Or is there a different solution to the
> problem?
>
> I don't know if this is information that is needed but we host our own
> mail and are using Microsoft Exchange 2002.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
>
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