It's no problem, I got the idea. I was in IT for many years till I made a
recent career change. But anyway...

I used the same Live ID that I use for everything else. I tried removing
them anyway and restarting but it still says that it can't create a new
notebook at the location. I tried removing the last "documents" folder from
the address and making a new application and pre-adding the folder that
OneNote would use and I still get the message every time. The strange thing
to me is that it still gives the "The location doesn't exist, would you like
to create it" box when I pre-added the OneNote folder for it; but it might be
giving that message for the file inside that folder that it creates.

Wait, I just had a thought while I was typing that. I turned off my norton
firewall and autoprotect temporarily and tried it and bingo it opened. I'll
have to play with that some and fine out what I can add to the firewall list
or whatever to let it through before I get everybody else to do it.

Thanks again so much for your help in this. It's even better of a solution
than I wanted. We can add all kinds of documents and such on here too to
share.

"hey_tommy" wrote:

> 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?