Outlook home networking challenge

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I recently put a second computer in my house and am in the process of setting up a network. I have the two computers sharing an ISP connection (using a Linksys 54g wireless router) and am able to share basic files through a shared directory as well share a printer but I've run into trouble with Outlook data sharing and would appreciate any help anyone out there can give. What I'd like to do is be able to run Outlook on either PC from a single data file on one of the PCs (the .pst file, I believe) so that changes made on the Calendar, for example, on one PC will show up the next time I open up Outlook on the other PC. I'm assuming I can only have Outlook open on one PC at a time. Both PCs are running Windows XP and Office XP

Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks
 
Just put the .PST file in a location accessible to both PCs and point both
copies of Outlook to it. You're correct that only one PC can connect to the
..PST at any given time. Also, if you do this, make sure you back up your
..PST file frequently -- putting a .PST on a network share increases the
chance of file corruption and is not a configuration that Microsoft
supports.

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Jocelyn Fiorello
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