Placing Entourage Data on a File Server

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Quinn

I've been trying to find a way to place Entourage user data on a shared
volume, instead of storing on local drives. I've tried Mac aliases and
Unix Symlinks, but neither seems to work.

Has anyone been able to get Entourage to store user data -- including
the email database - on a shared volume?

I knw that Microsoft would like me to use MS Exchange, but it's
overkill in a Mac-only, 5-person office.Thanks in advance.

Quinn
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

Quinn said:
I've been trying to find a way to place Entourage user data on a shared
volume, instead of storing on local drives. I've tried Mac aliases and
Unix Symlinks, but neither seems to work.

Has anyone been able to get Entourage to store user data -- including
the email database - on a shared volume?
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Aliases work just fine for local drives. I've never tried shared network
drives.
What type of drive is it?? Is it on a Windows server or MacOS??
Are you sharing through smb, WebDAV or AppleTalk??

Corentin
 
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Scott Boettcher

I tested it and it worked, but I got corrupted databases quite often.
So, I¹m keeping them locally.

Scott
 
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Jim DeWitt

Aliases work just fine for local drives. I've never tried shared network
drives.
What type of drive is it?? Is it on a Windows server or MacOS??
Are you sharing through smb, WebDAV or AppleTalk??
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The network drive is served by Mac OS Server 10.3.9. Presently, it's using
AFP although it could be switched to something else with a little effort.

Quinn
 
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Jim DeWitt

Scott -

What was your network drive setup? We've got Mac OS X Server 10.3.9 via AFP.

I already get corrupted databases with the files stored locally (some of the
databases are absurdly large). So how often is "quite often"?

Quinn
 
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Scott Boettcher

Jim,

About 2-3 times a week ­ too many to use this process.
This was done on a Win2003 server, so your experience may be different with
an Apple server.
Once we get our new XSAN in place, I will test with that setup.

Scott
 
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