sharing bookmarks

On a simple two-pc network sharing files and internet, is it possible in
some way to make the IE "favorites" common to both pcs? That is, when I
add a bookmark to the laptop, it's also added to the other pc?
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Trevor Wright

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 14:18:14 +0000, Trevor Wright put finger to
keyboard and typed:

>On a simple two-pc network sharing files and internet, is it possible in
>some way to make the IE "favorites" common to both pcs? That is, when I
>add a bookmark to the laptop, it's also added to the other pc?

Not on a simple network, no. If you have a centralised server, so that
people logging on to each individual machine were logging into the
server domain, then the user settings and "My Documents" will be
stored on the server meaning that it doesn't matter which physical
machine you use. That's common in corporate environments, but it's
unusual on a home network.

Mark
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Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Sun, 19 Mar
2006 14:18:14 +0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
uk.comp.home-networking, yawatina tan reek esk Trevor Wright
<(E-Mail Removed)> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:

>On a simple two-pc network sharing files and internet, is it possible in
>some way to make the IE "favorites" common to both pcs? That is, when I
>add a bookmark to the laptop, it's also added to the other pc?

You could use something like xcopy with a schedule, or simplecopy2000, to copy
the bookmarks from one machine to the other. You'd need to ensure it does it,
say, once an hour, and also to do it both ways only copying new and newly
modified files.

Either that, or use Firefox and point its settings at the same bookmarks.html
file on both machines.

deKay
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Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Sun, 19 Mar
2006 14:56:48 +0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
uk.comp.home-networking, yawatina tan reek esk deKay
<(E-Mail Removed)> fornis do marikano es bono
tan el:

>>On a simple two-pc network sharing files and internet, is it possible in
>>some way to make the IE "favorites" common to both pcs? That is, when I
>>add a bookmark to the laptop, it's also added to the other pc?
>
>You could use something like xcopy with a schedule, or simplecopy2000, to copy
>the bookmarks from one machine to the other. You'd need to ensure it does it,
>say, once an hour, and also to do it both ways only copying new and newly
>modified files.
>
>Either that, or use Firefox and point its settings at the same bookmarks.html
>file on both machines.

Or, if you're feeling brave, you could change the registry setting:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Shell
Folders\Favorites

to point at the same location on both machines. Things might all go
pear-shaped if you lose the network connection though, unless you have that
shared folder cached.

deKay
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"deKay" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Sun, 19
> Mar
> 2006 14:18:14 +0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
> uk.comp.home-networking, yawatina tan reek esk Trevor Wright
> <(E-Mail Removed)> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>
>>On a simple two-pc network sharing files and internet, is it possible in
>>some way to make the IE "favorites" common to both pcs? That is, when I
>>add a bookmark to the laptop, it's also added to the other pc?
>
> You could use something like xcopy with a schedule, or simplecopy2000, to
> copy
> the bookmarks from one machine to the other. You'd need to ensure it does
> it,
> say, once an hour, and also to do it both ways only copying new and newly
> modified files.

You could try syncback from http://www.2brightsparks.com/downloads.html

The freeware version is an the bottom of the page.

This can be set to run on a schedule (probably best on just one of the
computers) and to synchronise two folders.