Sharing settings across a network

Okay, I've searched to no avail. Is it possible to share mail settings and smart folders with constantly updating messages across a home network. This is what happens at my work. We use Outlook, and whatever computer I log into with my account, the Outlook I open updates (in the moment) and has all of the same messages/rules/folders as the computer I logged off in another room.
Can you do something like this on a home network?
Thanks.

Looks like I definitely posted this into the wrong forum.
After experimenting extensively, I consulted with Apple Technical support.
I was able to get the HD on the Airport Extreme to be visible on the other computers by fiddling with the settings in Finder Prefs.
However it is not possible to create aliases of the content of the hard drive nor get Front Row to view anything on the Airport Extreme HD.
iTunes will either copy the media over to the local HDs, spawning masses of files without any way to check a common set, or lose track of them after restarts.
I enquired if Apple's Time Capsule was any better, and other than being an all in one device with a fat ticket price, the answer is no.
Apple TV will only share limited media over a small selection of computers, too little and too few for my purposes.
So to sum up.
Why does Apple even bother, given it has done such a half baked job?
P.

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