Re: How can I use one email account across multiple users with WinXP

One thing you have to do is make sure the registry keys (particularly the accounts key) is the same across all users. Otherwise you will have problems.

If its a permissions issue on the directory, then you need to specify a directory that all users have read and write access to. Otherwise, I'm not sure what could be the problem.

steve

"Martin C" <martinc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:sba2g.22200$LH2.20696@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I used to have an old Win98SE machine which had the one email account that was used by everyone in the family (we don't get much mail - boo hoo!! and most of it is essentially for all of us anyway). This was not a problem until I put together a new PC which has WinXP Home SP2 installed.

After a bit of reading on the web, I found that by moving the dbx files (by changing the location of the message store in Tool/Options/Maintenance) into the All Users directory in Documents and Settings
ie C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook Express
that everyone could continue to use the same account.

At first, it all worked ok. However, now that I have more or less set up the new PC how I want it, I have reduced the other users to restricted accounts so they cannot mess up the machine that much (as the other users are kids and a virtually computer illiterate adult).

After setting the other users as limited accounts, they are no longer able to fire up Outlook Express. I am assuming that this is because they are not allowed to modify files in the All Users directory. I get an error message stating that the application could not access the message store.

The obvious solution would be to give each of them their own email account, but that would mean ensuring that all addresses known by others are updated which we don't want to do unless it is necessary.

Is there any way that I can recover from this situation? I really don't want to leave them with Computer Administrator priviliges.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Martin



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