Best way to share Thunderbird Profiles across multiple machines.

[Young]

Ryan Pugatch wrote:
> 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.
> 
>  --
> Ryan Pugatch

Thunderbird can't handle multiple instances opening the profile?