Re: [Evolution] Change local personal folders

[Francisco Martinez Espadas <fmartinez ajtgna org>]

Hi, 
Following the steps you told me I have:
    - shared a directory on a linux server via NFS. 
    - mounted  this directory on my computer (mount ...)
    - moved the .evolution folder content to the mounted device 
    - deleted the .evolution folder
    - and  then made a link (ln -s) named .evolution, where
the .evolution folder was,  to the mounted directory.

It works great!
Thank you so much for your help


El dc 07 de 03 del 2007 a les 14:33 +0000, en/na Pete Biggs va escriure:
> On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 14:57 +0100, Francisco Martinez Espadas wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Yes, but the account setup information *won't* be 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? 
>
> No, as it says in the screenshot, it's a locking problem - as I said in
> my original reply, you will have to make sure that Evolution uses a
> network compatible locking mechanism - obviously it doesn't!  You *may*
> have a chance if the mount was NFS, but I don't hold out much hope for
> it working on an SMBFS mount.
>
> If the server is a Unix/Linux box, then I suggest you try using NFS
> mounts.  If it is a Windows box, then I suggest you reformat it and
> change it into a Linux box and then try using NFS :-)
>
> Pete
>
> > -----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 MartÃnez 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
> >
> >
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