Hello All, A friend want to have a network where 1 PC gets the mail from the internet and some clients can check on that mail and send mail to each othere and the internet.
As far as I understand the helpfile TB! can do that. Leaves me with some questions: This is a part of the helpfile: 2. Using the "My Computer" desktop icon, choose the local drive or directory in which The Bat! is installed or where you are planning to install The Bat!. This location will be used to store the message bases. Make this path available as a "network share" for the users that are going to run The Bat! in client mode on their computers. If you are already using a network drive, e.g. on a dedicated file server, you may skip this and the next step. - He's using XP so: Install TB, make the directory share. (Both program directory and Mail directory or only the mail directory? - Must The mail maps be in the TB! directory or may they be in an other directory like My documents? - If the mailfolder can be in an other directory it must be shared, but must the TB! program directory also be shared? 3. Map the shared resource from step 2 to a network drive letter. Other computers that are going to act as clients within your network will use this network drive to exchange information with the server. - How is this done in XP, they will be moste likely on my c:\ drive in a shared directory. When I map that to a network drive (call it Z:\) I can see it but an other computer must make his own drive map to the shared map. Must they call the drive Z too or may it be another drive letter (as long as it is the same shared folder) - Or Am I mistaking it with a drive letter made by a REAL server? (It makes the directory accessible as drive D:\ and all the clients will see it as drive D:\) The next point will only make some sense when this is the case. 4. If you do not have The Bat! installed yet, install it to the mapped network drive in order to allow machines running The Bat! in client mode to access it. Run The Bat! from the newly mapped network drive. - Is there a limit on how much clients there can be on 1 server (could not find that in the help file)? -- Cheers, Edgar Communicating with TB! v2.01.3, Windows XP 5.1.2600 Service Pack 1 Judge not the horse by his saddle. - Chinese Proverb
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