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by cmhjon

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I have a server/client architecture server by WinNT with a combo of 95/98 clients. We have a server that has folders for each user to store his or her files. The problem I am having is each time a user tries to save a file from within or Word or Excel (either 97 or XP) to their personal folder, it causes the program to stop responding. We have another server that is setup for the same purposes for a different department of users and it works fine. I have played with sharing and permissions and matched the settings to that other server but it still won't work. Each user uses a login script for their NT domain which includes mapping the drive that contains the users folder to their computer. HELP!

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by dpalsen

I'd say the first thing to do is make sure you can do just basic copy's to and from that network drive. It may be that the NIC is giving problems.

by sue t

Are you getting any error messages? Did you give them rights to the subdirectories when you gave permissions to the folders?

by cmhjon

No error messages unfortunately and nothing apparent in Event Viewer on the server either. As far as I can tell, the master folder which is shared and all the unshared subfolders have enough permissions. The one thing I did see was that after I recovered from the "crash" the file I tried to save to the server actually did get saved along with a temp file and I can't seem to do anything with either file until after a reboot of the PC unless I want to deal with another "(not responding)" task.In your answer you mentioned both rights AND permissions. What is the difference?

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