Best way to share Thunderbird Profiles across multiple machines.

[Ryan Pugatch]

On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:20:31 -0500
Young <tuxman at knology.net> wrote:

> In the past I've shared Thunderbird Profiles between Ubuntu and XP on
> a dual boot machine.
> 
> Now I'd like to share Thunderbird Profiles across a local network 
> between 2 Ubuntu machines and 1 XP box.
> 
> Instead of a Network Area Server, I want to designate one machine as
> the first one on, and have it host the Thunderbird Profiles as well
> as other files across the local net.
> 
> By Thunderbird Profiles, I mean the complete set, multiple email 
> accounts, and their associated mail folders.
> 
> What's the best way to make this work? Anyone here have this working 
> already?
> 
> 
> Mark

I could see this going horribly if you attempt to open thunderbird on
more than one machine simultaneously.  Anyway, your best bet may be
using Samba, which will be accessible from Ubuntu as well as XP.

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