[107] in winnt
Re: email on server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen D. Dowdy)
Wed Jan 28 17:20:31 1998
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:24:28 -0500
To: Carrie Groves <cgroves@MIT.EDU>
From: "Stephen D. Dowdy" <sdowdy@MIT.EDU>
Cc: ntpartners@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980128150115.009246b0@po8.mit.edu>
The problem is that Eudora expects to see a drive letter -- not the unc
style. So, if you would share the \\sscm1\users\ directory and then map
the local workstation to that share, like P:\ then the command line on the
shortcut for Eudora would be: c:\eudora\eudora.exe p:\%username%\Eudora
At 03:01 PM 1/28/98 -0500, Carrie Groves wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I was at the ntpartners presentation on Monday when you demonstrated your
>setup in OSP. I was very interested in how you set up each person's email
>on the server so when I got back to my office I tried to do the same thing
>here. (I do what you do in the Student Services Center.) We have NT 4
>workstations and a server. However, it doesn't work the same way for me. I
>copied everyone's Eudora folder into their folders on the server. Then I
>went to the Eudora shortcut properties on each machine and in the target
>field after the location of the application, I put our server unc name,
>sscm1, then the directory where each user has a folder. So the target looks
>like this: c:\eudora\eudora.exe \\sscm1\users\%username%\Eudora. This
>doesn't seem to be working so I put the \\sscm1\users\%username%\Eudora in
>the Start In field. That didn't work either.
>
>After each time I made those changes I opened Eudora and got a message that
>some attachments could not be found. And when I created a new mailbox I
>noticed that it was being created locally. Also a new message box appeared
>when I opened Eudora which never happened before.
>
>I'm sorry to bother you with this, but you seem to know the most about this
>so any help you can give would be appreciated.
>
>
>Carrie Groves
>Network Administrator
>MIT Student Services Center/Student Financial Aid Office
>(617) 258-0714
>
