safe to login as another outlook user?

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Laura

hi,
we have a LAN here with a Windows server and W98 clients. when I log on to
the network in the morning when I turn my computer on, I enter a username
and password. then when I open outlook, I see my email account and my
emails.

now when I log off and log on as another user (with permission) and start
outlook, do I get to see his/her emails? if I reply and he/she opens outlook
the next day, will 'my' replies be in his/her sent items folder? what would
happen if she/he opened it at the same moment as I did?

can I do something wrong? or is everything stored on the server?

what if outlook suddenly starts to autoarchive? could that be a problem?

i could of course test it but better to ask first! :)
 
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Roady [MVP]

Well with Windows 98 it really depends on how it was configured. If it was
configured right (for a domain with roaming profiles) you've got nothing to
worry.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-What do the Outlook Icons Mean?
-Create an Office 2003 CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 1
 
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Laura

Hi Robert,
Many thanks for our reply!
- It is OL 2000 running as "Corporate or Workgroup".
- When I go to Start, Control Panel, Mail, there are 3 services: Internet
E-mail, MS Exchange Server and OL Address Book. In MS Exchange Server is the
'default' user (if there is such a thing) I mean the one that also logs on
and reads his/her email on that computer. Duh, does this make sense?
;-)
Laura


message Well with Windows 98 it really depends on how it was configured. If it was
configured right (for a domain with roaming profiles) you've got nothing to
worry.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-What do the Outlook Icons Mean?
-Create an Office 2003 CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 1
 
R

Roady [MVP]

Well it depends on how you logon to Windows 98. Is this by entering a
username, password and a domain? Then most likely it is configured correctly
so other users can logon and don't mess up your settings. Since it's really
hard telling from here whether your Windows 98 environment has been setup
for this you are better of asking your administrator.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-What do the Outlook Icons Mean?
-Create an Office 2003 CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 1
 
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Laura

Yes, when logging on I get a popup:
- username
- password
- a domain or workgroup

(cannot see this workgroup in Control Panel - Mail, must be somewhere else)

L.
 
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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

Laura said:
hi,
we have a LAN here with a Windows server and W98 clients. when I log
on to the network in the morning when I turn my computer on, I enter
a username and password. then when I open outlook, I see my email
account and my emails.

now when I log off and log on as another user (with permission) and
start outlook, do I get to see his/her emails?
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Yep, if you have set up roaming profiles.
if I reply and he/she
opens outlook the next day, will 'my' replies be in his/her sent
items folder? what would happen if she/he opened it at the same
moment as I did?
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No problems.
can I do something wrong? or is everything stored on the server?
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If you don't have PST files in the mail profile, or access the Exchange
server itself via POP somewhere else, it's all on the server.
what if outlook suddenly starts to autoarchive? could that be a
problem?
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Disable autoarchive for all users. This is one of the first things I do when
I set up a mail profile.
i could of course test it but better to ask first! :)
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Yep. Couple of notes:
1. On a domain, you really ought to get all your computers on XP Pro. Win9x
is old, and is very insecure.
2. I see from a later post you're using Outlook 2000 and have Internet Mail
and Exchange in the same profile. You've been lucky if you've been able to
make this work - it will probably fail eventually, as it is not supported.
I'd get everyone on a newer version of Outlook and also consider ditching
the POP mail outright - you have Exchange, so you ought to host your own
domain's mail on the server directly so that Exchange handles internet &
internal mail.
 
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