Sorry, I should have really read my response before posting - 2
clarifications, as I think it might be confusing in some places.

1. When I'm talking about 'main Live ID account', I'm talking about the
account that you use for your Hotmail, Live Messenger, Live Mail, etc - which
is different from the Live ID account you created (or another Live ID account
you associated) when setting up Office Live Small Business. This means that
if the Live ID you used to create the Office Live account IS the usual Live
ID account you use on the machine, this solution scenario probably doesn't
apply (although clearing the cached Passport / Live credentials will do no
harm at all - so you may as well try give it a try).

2. When I said "this may screw things up" - what I really meant was that it
may affect which Live ID the Live Sign-In Assistant uses for various services
- but there is no "screwing up" of any kind - and actually, on my machine
(Vista Ultimate SP2 x86), this did NOT affect the login on any of the Windows
Live Essentials programs (Messenger, Live Mail, etc) - that is, continued
working as before. So that was really a bad choice in phrasing on my part -
sorry for the possible confusion.


"RSlaton" wrote:

> It seems so close to working but right after it asks if I want to create the
> folder it errors and says OneNote was unable to create the folder. I guess
> there is some sort of permission problem somewhere, but it's getting real
> late, I'll have to look at it more tomorrow. Thank you so much though for
> pointing this out, it seems very useful for a number of ideas I have. I think
> tomorrow I'm going to see if I can get Windows to map a drive to the
> documents folder, maybe that will make the permissions a bit more straight
> forward. Any ideas?
>
> "hey_tommy" wrote:
>
> > You can use Office Live Small Business to get this functionality for free -
> > and I am currently using that solution myself and can confirm it works
> > excellent.
> >
> > Go to http://smallbusiness.officelive.com/ and create an account (using your
> > existing Windows Live ID account - or you can set up a new Window Live ID if
> > you like).
> >
> > Once there, go to the Business Applications section (which is basically the
> > SharePoint portion of your Office Live account) - you'll find it under the
> > 'More' menu option in the top navigation bar.
> >
> > The first time you click there, you'll be asked to wait while the Business
> > Applications feature is activated (a few minutes - basically, it's creating a
> > new SharePoint workspace).
> >
> > You can then use the default 'Documents' document library in the default
> > Document Manager application - or alternatively, add a new application and/or
> > a new document library.
> >
> > With the basic, free service, you can have up to 5 different users including
> > yourself. Each user login is based on an email address, but if that email
> > address doesn't already have a Live ID associated with it, that user will be
> > required to create one (and keep in mind you can create a Live ID for ANY
> > email address - not just the Microsoft ones ending in hotmail.com or
> > live.com). Also, your Business Applications area (ie, the SharePoint portion
> > of your Office Live Small Business account) allows you up to 50 MB of
> > storage.
> >
> > You can upgrade either the storage or the number of users (or both) for a
> > *very* reasonable price - you'll see links to it in the associated areas - or
> > conversely, you can go to Add/Manage Services option in the top navbar's
> > 'More' submenu.
> >
> > To create a shared notebook in your document library of choice, make note of
> > its URL when you've navigated to it via clicking its tab in your business
> > application - and strip away the 'Forms/AllItems.aspx' at the end.
> >
> > In OneNote, select to create a new notebook, choose a name and a template
> > (or use the blank template) and click Next. Then select 'Multiple people will
> > use this notebook' and 'On a server' radio buttons - and next once again. And
> > finally, enter the URL you've noted (once again, with 'Forms/AllItems.aspx'
> > stripped from its end) - make note of the full path URL being show right
> > below the URL text field - it's basically that same URL you pasted, with your
> > notebook's chosen name as the subdirectory - and this is what you'll give out
> > to other users (and what will appear in the email that's automatically
> > created for you to send out to your partners if you leave the checkbox below
> > checked when you hit 'Create').
> >
> >
> > Hope this helps. Let me know if you have any further questions,
> >
> > Tom
> >
> >
> > "RSlaton" wrote:
> >
> > > I would like to share a notebook with some family members in order to
> > > collaborate notes. We aren't networked so I can't put it on a network drive.
> > > Everybody needs to be able to edit the notebook so just emailing them the
> > > onenote file isn't feasible either. And I can't afford to buy a server
> > > computer with sharepoint and all that. I have played around with trying to
> > > share it with SkyDrive and Live Workspaces but it doesn't seem to work that
> > > way. Is there some sort of hosting site that will work with OneNote that I
> > > don't know about? Or are there places that will sell you a little space on a
> > > sharepoint server?