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Windows Forum / Outlook Express / General Topics / May 2008A shared account cannot be opened via a limited user account
As my wife and I do not get much in the way of email (sad, I know!), I have set up a single email account which is used by both of us. I have done this by setting the Store Folder as C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Outlook Express In this way, the dbx files are not stored in a user specific location and can be viewed by both users. This worked initially, with my wife also set up as an administrator user. Now that I have changed her account to a limited account on Win XP Home SP2, she is not able to open OE6 as it states that it could not open the store folder. I would have thought that even as a limited user, she should have access to the All Users section. When I set her account back to administrator user, she has full access to OE6 again. Is there a way around this so that she can have her limited user and still have access to her mail? TIA Martin > As my wife and I do not get much in the way of email (sad, I know!), I > have set up a single email account which is used by both of us. I have [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Martin What are the permissions on that folder? Jim As I have WinXP Home, I do not have a security tab visible on the folder to tell what the permissions are. What I can say is that (as detailed in the sharing tab), that the Outlook Express folder in the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\ folder has been coped to the Shared Documents, so in theory, should be visible to everyone. Hope this answers your question Jim. Martin >> As my wife and I do not get much in the way of email (sad, I know!), I >> have set up a single email account which is used by both of us. I have [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > What are the permissions on that folder? > Jim Assuming WinXP, do you have it set up properly? See http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_oe.htm#xp_share_address  Signature~Robear Dyer (PA Bear), working offline MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ > As my wife and I do not get much in the way of email (sad, I know!), I > have [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > Martin PA Bear, I have already used the details on Kelly's site with great success. However, as my original post stated, this worked fine while we both had admin accounts, but with my wife's account set to 'limited', she could not actually open OE successfully due to a problem with the Store Folder. Could the fact that I created the folder under my account be causing the problem due to her, now, lower permissions? Martin > Assuming WinXP, do you have it set up properly? See > http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_oe.htm#xp_share_address [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] >> >> Martin See Frank's reply. Post the complete error message. Signature~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ > PA Bear, > I have already used the details on Kelly's site with great success. [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] >>> >>> Martin > As my wife and I do not get much in the way of email (sad, I know!), I > have set up a single email account which is used by both of us. I have [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > Is there a way around this so that she can have her limited user and still > have access to her mail? Is her OE pointing to the correct Store Folder? SignatureFrank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM Do not reply with email Frank, With her account as administrator type, I could see that her message folder is pointing to the correct folder (in our case C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Outlook Express). If I put her account back to Limited type, then OE will not start up and I get the following error message: "Outlook Express could not be started. This application was unable to open the Outlook Express message store. Your computer may be out of memory or the disk is full. Contact Microsoft support. (0x800C012E,5)" After that, I get another error message stating: "Outlook Express could not be started as MSOE.DLL initialised." With the account back to 'admin' again, it all works fine again. Does this gives any clues? Thanks for your help. Martin >> As my wife and I do not get much in the way of email (sad, I know!), I >> have set up a single email account which is used by both of us. I have [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Is her OE pointing to the correct Store Folder? When she gets that message it's probably because she doesn't have permissions for that folder. HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421 > Frank, > [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] >>> Is there a way around this so that she can have her limited user and >>> still have access to her mail? |
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