Re: Strange problem: Eudora 5.1...

From: Derek (this_address_is_stolen_do_not_use@sgrail.org)
Date: 03/12/03 

From: Derek <this_address_is_stolen_do_not_use@sgrail.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:56:05 +1100

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 22:13:34 GMT, "xboxer" <crazytalk@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote:

>We are experiencing a problem with Eudora 5.1 when multiple users share the
>same email account.
>
>The way we run EUDORA 5.1 is to store the data on the local file server in a
>folder called "Eudora", install the Eudora exe files on the users' PC's, run
>the exe file but start it in the server fileshare. In that way, all
>authorised users of that fileshare can run Eudora and access the same email.
>
>The problem with this setup is that if the users do not log out first in the
>office, they will be faced with a "Eudora in use" error message, and gets
>locked out. Sometimes too, even if the user has logged out, they still get
>this error message.
>
> This was puzzling initially, but after some investigation, we found that
>there is still a file in the fileshare called "owner.lok" which should have
>been deleted when the user logs out of Eudora - this file prevents another
>user from logging in.
>
>I can't explain why this file doesn't get deleted automatically. The
>solution was thus to delete this file, if it exists, before launching
>Eudora.

If the user machine crashes, the file will not be deleted.

>Does anyone out there have a solution to fix this problem apart from the
>manual (& possibly dangerous) way I have done it??
>
>I doesn't appear to matter whether the PC's are Win 95/Win2000 machines.
>
>The server is NT4 server.
>
>Any advice much appreciated.
>
>

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