Hello, the home directory is on local. What I want is ONLY evolution personal folders to be on a server, not the whole home directory, because of enterprise policies. What I have done is mounting the server directory as a local device following the instructions of this thread on Ubuntuforums: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=255872&highlight=mount+fstab+network and I have made a link as follows: ln -s /mnt/network_mounted_dir .evolution I have previously deleted the .evolution folder on the user's home. The link seems to work because I can succesfully create folders with evolution and these are created on the server. But when I try to move any mail to those folders I always get the error on the screenshot attached. May it be a permissions problem? Thank you. -----Original Message----- From: evolution-list-bounces gnome org on behalf of Pete Biggs Sent: Tue 2/20/2007 10:32 AM To: evolution-list gnome org Cc: Subject: Re: [Evolution] Change local personal folders On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 09:38 +0100, Francisco Martínez wrote:
Hello, I'm using Evolution as an Exchange Email Client. I need the users local Personal Folders to be not actually local, but to be on a server. It's a different server than the Exchange Server, it's a storage server with a huge amount of HD. I have not found any way of changing the path of the user folders, and this is an important point on my enterprise. Is it posible? If so, how?
Is the user's home directory on a file server? If so, then the evo local directories will be as well. If evo is the only application that you want to have the local folders on a server (why?) then at the very least you need to link $HOME/.evolution to a folder on the server. But there are some issues you should be aware of: first the setup of the accounts is not held in those directories, but in gconf, so that information will still be local; second you will have to check that the locking paradigm used be evo is network aware - I don't know if it is, someone who is more knowledgeable about the code will have to tell you that. Pete _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list gnome org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
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