Desktop and Laptop working

[RaphaelSamad]

Hi there
I am really sorry if this has already been covered but there must be a way to do this and I cannot seem to work it out.
I have a desktop running XP Pro and Office Pro. I have a laptop running XP Home and Office Pro. Is there any way for me, when these two machines are networked together, to simply sychronise all files held within the 'My Documents' folder and all Outlook pst files on both machines so that they both, subsequently become identical when separated again.
I do not have a server and don't really want to set one up just to do this.
Am I crazy to want to do this or is there a way that I have missed.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Raphael

 

[Paulreg]

Share the My Documents folder on the desktop and map a drive to that share from the laptop. From the laptop right click the mapped drive and choose "Make Available offline"
Right click My Documents on Start Menu and set target to the mapped drive.
I'm not a Outlook user but I guess something simular is possible ?

 

[jimp56]

2 things about outlook- you would have to relocate the PST file to the common shared folder, and then have outlook look for it in the new location (file->data file management then remove old pst, relocate it, choose add and point to new location)

also, in both cases (moving the PST and then syncing it to the other pc) outlook would have to be closed before you can - or else you would get an error about the file being locked.