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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > Evolution-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list > > > > _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
