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

Thanks for the responses Steve and sorry to take so long to get back - I
have been away for a while.

Now I am really confused. Copying the registry entries for the identity from
my admin account into the other user account sounded like it should have
worked like a charm.

In actual fact, I still have exactly the same problem. With the user account
in admin mode, you can open it with no trouble. In restricted mode, it still
gives the same errors when trying to open OE.

Any further thoughts.

Martin


"Steve Cochran" <scochran@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Those error messages are generic and aren't going to help at all.

Try with just two users to start.

Your Admin account is working okay, so look to see what the Store Root
entry is under this registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{GUID}\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express
Where GUID represents your Identity number.

Copy that path and make sure its the full path to the files and does not
include %userprofile% or another other variables in it.

Then log on to one of the users and check the same location and see if the
Store Root is identical. If not, then make it identical to the Admin
user.

Then see if OE will start. If not, then delete everything under the
user's Identities key and copy from the Admin and import into the user.

steve


"Martin C" <martinc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have removed everything from the newly created Outlook directory in the
All users directory (See my earlier post included below) into a new folder
(Outlook Express) in the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Shared
Documents\Outlook Express\ to see if it was a permissions issue with the
directory. I had noticed that when a limited user tried to find the
previously setup directory structure, it was hidden from the. The newly
created shared directory folder is clearly visible to all users.

I am still getting the same problem, however, so it does not appear to be
a permissions problem (I presume!).

I have checked all registry settings and they appear to tie up across all
users. (The only difference is that I personally have an extra identity
that is not used by the others - but that should not really be a
problem).

Whenever I run OE from an administrator privilige account, I have no
problems at all. From a restricted account, I get the following error
message:

"Outlook Express could not be started. The application was unable to open
the Outlook Express message store. Your computer may be out of memory or
your disk is full. Contact Microsoft (0x800C012E, 5)."

After pressing OK, I get the further error message:

"Outlook Express could not be started because MSOE.DLL could not be
initialised. Outlook Express may not be installed correctly."

I have 1GB of RAM and this PC is undergoing a new build, so I have very
many GB of free disc. Also, it all powers up ok for admin users.

I have tried removing OE via Add/Remove program Windows components and
reinstalling it, reconfiguring the shared directory etc and the problem
still remains.

Any further ideas, as I am now completely out of them.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Martin


"Steve Cochran" <scochran@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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
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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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