ROT: network help...

ushere wrote on 7/20/2008, 4:57 AM
anyone out there know how / if i can:

share my thunderbird and ff3 profiles across my home network. ie. access the same bookmarks, address book, email, from 2 / 3 pc's. i believe i can do this by making the original profile directories shared, then pointing ff and tb on the new networked pc(s) to the existing profile via profile manager.

but will this let me have tb / ff open on both pc's at once? ie. if my wife wants to check the post on one pc while i have tb open on another pc?

any other suggestions most welcome

sorry for being right off topic here, but there's not a lot of people hereabouts who even know what the internet is, and i have posted to mozila forums and such, but not got any (coherant) answers back.

thanks

leslie

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 7/20/2008, 6:08 AM
You can share those files, but i suspect that if you try to use them from more than one PC at a time you may get unpredictable results or even corrupt the files. Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird expect exclusive use of them. My suggestion would be to make a copy of them to start with, then manually update the other PCs if you make major changes on one of them. Yep, it'll be a pain.

I'm loath to suggest this, but Outlook/Outlook Express does allow sharing. I'd say though that that is it's one and only good point.
richard-courtney wrote on 7/20/2008, 6:22 AM
IE / OE is one of the culprits in spam propagation. Scrips or Java applets easily read your saved email username when visiting websites.

I recommend webmail or virtualmail type services. The spammers have yet to find
our accounts that have never been saved for OE.
farss wrote on 7/20/2008, 7:04 AM
Reading through some of the recent articles on internet security stealing my email address would be the least of my worries. Only last week a significant flaw in the design of the DNS servers was discovered and (hopefully) patched although it seems it cannot be made 100% secure.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7496735.stm

http://www.doxpara.com/

Viruses are no longer the work of college kids with time on their hands either. Organised crime has now taken over for profit. A little paranoia is probably in order. Their latest efforts are almost impossible to detect, they even uninstall themselves once they've done their work to escape detection.

One thing I found disturbing recently was installing the On2 flash encoder required me to disable my firewall. Once I finally had the thing installed it has a 'phone home for updates' feature that'll cause the app to prang if it can't call home. You can turn this off but first you need it to run which means more holes in security.

Bob.
Tom Pauncz wrote on 7/21/2008, 6:55 AM
Leslie,
Can't help with Outlook but there is an add-on for FF3 called 'Foxmark' that allows you to synch bookmarks across multiple computers and even access those from any computer while traveling.
Tom