MS Outlook and Netfolders, sharing and updating calendars..doesn't work! HELP ASAP!

thirdlegstump

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I'm trying to set up Outlook 2000 so that I can have a calendar shared to 2 other users on the same network. I installed Outlook 2000 with the Netfolders services since we don't have Exchange server, nor do we plan on using it. I've set up email accounts for each workstation and they can send/receive email fine. Sharing invitations also work. I have sent invitations to each workstation email address for a single master calendar from the 'host' PC. The clients do receive the invitations and I do hit 'accept' for the invitation. However, the changes made to a calendar do not appear on the client machines, even after hitting 'Send updates now' and hitting 'send and receive' on each client workstation. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong here but this seems like the most straight ahead way to do this. The software does say that the updates will be sent shortly but even after a few hours, it doesn't do anything. Basically the client computers don't receive any bit of information to the shared calendar and editing and updating the calendar from a client computer won't update the calendar on the host machine either. What am I doing wrong here???
 

Allanv

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try increasing the size of the shared folders to 2meg see if it helps, also try unsharing the calender and resharing it making sure to del the old shared from the other pc's.

i have dont this a thousand times before and sometimes it gets stuck and pressing F5 a few times seems to clear it ....

 

thirdlegstump

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Hey Allan, thanks for the help. I have gotten the updates to appear on the client machines....now the problem is that the updates to the calendar done by the clients do not appear on the host machine. The permissions for each client is set to editor which supposedly have just about 100% access. Very strange!
 

Allanv

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what is the time set between updates ? 10 mins is default i think ..

get them to press F5 after they have entered info see if it forces the updates to go through..


Regards

Allanv