Storing a user's schema in external disks like Zip disks

Hi,
We are having Oracle 8i Personal edition on a Win2k machine. Multiple users want to access the database. Now we want to have a single user id for all the users. This creates a problem with regards to security of their data.
So, is it possible to store a user's schema in external medias like Zip disks in a way that the user can work & save their data in Zip disks ?? If so, how can we do that ??
Thanks,
Chethan

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