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by stevej 2 views

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During a recent training session on Win2K Share and NTFS permissions, I ran into a problem wnere I was able to open a file created In Wordpad on two servers at the same time. After having a user attempt to edit the file on the remote machine and tryto save the changes, we recieved an error message on the remote machine. "An unexpected error has occured" After closing the file on both servers, we reopened it and found it to be BLANK!

Being surprised at the ability to open a file for editingin two places at once surprised me to say the least, and having the files contents disapear added to the confusion.

applying service pack 2 made no difference.

If anyone can offer an explanation or a solution to this situation you have my thanks in advance

SteveJ

PS the computer on which the file resides is setup as a DC with the other server being a member server

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by rabbit_runner

It is possible to open a file in two places, but this is not the norm. Usually, the second instance, will be 'read only' and not be able to edit the file.

In any case, what happened, the file was opened in two instances. (Incorrectly) Then whenyou tried to save the file, the system did not know which instance to work with, thus, all the information was deleted.

The situation that happened was not normal. I would check / recheck the permissions on the share, folder, file.

As for yourfile, the information is gone. You will need to re-creat it or find a copy from a backup or other source.

Not much help, but is should shed light on what happened.

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