Sharing Documents and Settings folder between two computers: bad idea?

[ShyGuy91284]

I've got a computer at home and a computer at college. I've got a spare 80 GB drive in a removable bay I'd like to store my documents and settings folder on, and if possible, share it between the two computers (stuff like Outlook XP and other settings files on it too). Is this a good idea, or are my settings going to get all screwed up? I know it's possible to make a user page file on another drive.

 

[NogginBoink]

In general, bad idea.

But the OS won't let you do that anyway. If you log on to school as "joe," then a Joe folder is created in docs and settings.

If you log on at "joe" at home for the first time, the OS sees a "joe" folder is alredy there and will create a "joe.000" or "joe.domainname" folder and use that for your profile instead.

With hacking you can get around it, but it'd be seriously at-your-own-risk stuff. I seriously doubt you'd be able to make it work the way you'd like it to.

 

[lucky9]

You might be able to do it with shareing and permissions for that drive.

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: ShyGuy91284 I know it's possible to make a user page file on another drive.

..not sure I know what you mean by that. Explain further if you could please.

What you're trying to do is a pretty bad idea, but you could probably share 'my docs' and 'desktop' between computers. You could also do a roaming profile which would accomplish just about the same thing.

 

[lucky9]

Any chance of cloning the drive and using BriefCase or whatever MS uses to update changed files?

 

[ShyGuy91284]

I figured it was a bad idea. I'm already planning on Mozilla Firebird and some other applications in a directory on the drive that will run from a shortcut. Most things i can deal with, the only thing I want to do that I don't know how to do it share my Outlook settings. Data storage is up to the user anyways. By pagefile I mean I tried cloning a partition to a drive, and it used the new partition for the system and the old partition for my docs and sets file. In the admin settings in XP I've noticed the ability to point to where a user's settings and stuff are.

 

[RussianSoldier]

Wouldn't it just be like a server stored on a server? I could see problems if they were two different operating systems though...

 

[ShyGuy91284]

*A little confused.....*

Originally posted by: RussianSoldier
Wouldn't it just be like a server stored on a server? I could see problems if they were two different operating systems though...