Best way to share Thunderbird Profiles across multiple machines.

Young tuxman at knology.net
Mon Sep 8 22:13:05 UTC 2008


NoOp wrote:
> On 09/08/2008 01:20 PM, Young 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
>>
> 
> See:
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Sharing_profiles_-_mail
> 
Gary,

Yes, that's what made me think I could pull this off.

Have you tried this?  What I was really hoping for was confirmation that 
it works, any usage problems, and maybe tricks to do it better, or even 
a better way.

Mark




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