Thanks Diane!
so if I decide to go with the multiple users I will just use control panel
in windows, set up the users, then set up outlook on each one as individual
mailbox. this correct?
have set up outlook for one single user on their own computers but now we
doing more working form home and more staff about the office and we just
haven't got the space for a computer each (or the finance!)
thanks
Resi

HI Brian
at the moment th particular workstation that started this line of throught
is used by two three users.
One member of staff using outlook on the desktop, another only accessing his
e-mail as web based and other volunteers (who have a google account and
access email online)

what i want to do is to give access to outlook on the desktop plus give
access to volunteers to use the workstation to work on, but set it up so that
they cannot save anything to the hard drive (this bring in another question,
how do I limit their 'saving' abilities? all volunteer have a 1GB pen-drive
so they can work on any computer which happens to be free.)

from here I would like for all computers in the office to have a guest
account so that volunteers cannot access the 'official' users file as they
might contain 'private' information they just should not have access to.

hope this makes it clear. as you can gather we have a rather mismash set up
and I am rather fed up of people coming to me asking to fix things out,
unfortunately I am on a steep learning curve on windows....as I work on my
Mac most of the time!

thanks for your help!
resi