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Unable To Open Outlook PST Across Network

I am attempting to open an Outlook PST across a wireless network. I can see it and have sharing turned on for all the disks and folders in the path, but I get the following error message with a window bar title of Personal Folders:

File access is denied. You do not have the permission required to access the file \\...

However, I can open files in the same directory from the same computer across the same network using different applications.

Can you help me fix this?

Peter073

sunray_2003

Peter,

Try this
if you can navigate to that PST file , then right-click it
go to "Properties" and make sure "Read-only" is not CHECKED
uncheck it if checked and not try to open PST

All the best

SR

Peter073

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I checked this. It was not Read-only. However, when I brought up Properties for the file across the network, I got a dialog box that said "You only have permission to view the current security information on ..." when I clicked on the Security tab. It then let me through, but I'm not smart enough to tell if it was preventing me from seeing something.

I believe that this is come kind of ownership/permission issue

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Peter073

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OK, I fixed this. In XP, I had turned on Sharing for the disk and all the subordinate folders, but I didn't have checked the box that says "allow network users to change my files." Outlook requires write access to the PST, which is while is was the only application that I used that had a problem.

Thanks for the suggestions.

sunray_2003

Great you got it solved. It was simple security and sharing issue here more than PST file itself.
BTW , there are lot of cases where users had that read-only turned on which had denied access

Please close the question

SR