Similiar to this thread, I am trying to get my family's Outlook 2003 SP2 individual's free/busy times shared with others. We don't have an Exchange server and really don't want to get one. The 3rd party Outlook connector for Google calendar's is a user-initiated synch - not automatic - so that is not very desirable. So back to see if I could leverage my local network shares.
We each have our own PC (and own copy of Outlook running) and have a central file server at home. I have tried to, under Outlook's Free/Busy Options panel, to publish my F/B (free/busy) data. It seems to get out there just fine. The path I have specified is:
file://Server1/data/FreeBusy/drew.vfb
I also setup a search location (in the same panel) to point to the same place. The dirctory for search is:
file://Server1/data/FreeBusy - I have also tried with a trailing / on the directory.
Trouble is that even though I also have other F/B data files out there, Outlook does not find it. I get the little popup saying Outlook has successfully saved my F/B data when I manually initiate a synch. But when I schedule a meeting, I get "No Information, No free/busy informaiton can be retrieved." for the remote users.
Does anyone have and pointers on what I am doing wrong? I also tried with my network FTP site using the ftp://username:password@hostname syntax but that got too complex and didn't work anyway.
Many thanks in advance.
