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Windows 2000 and Word Perfect

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by megtek

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Hi. I have a client with a small peer to peer network consisting of 5 Windows XP machines, and 1 Windows 2000 Pro machine. The Windows 2000 machine acts as a server for the others. It has a directory that is being shared and the other workstations map to it. Whenever the person at the Windows 2000 Pro machine opens an existing, or creates a new Word Perfect document and closes it...the other PC's on the network cannot access it. Gives a message like the file is in use, or read only. Neither are true. If I log the user out of Windows 2000 - then everyone can access the files.

Please help.

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by p.j.hutchison

Are they closing the document or closing the application. If just closing the document, it may leave files open. Are there any PFT*.TMP files left behind?
What service packs are installed on the PCs?

by megtek

Thanks for responding. Windows XP SP 1 - WIndows 2000 SP 4.

Yes...they close completely out of WP program. No - no .tmp files are left behind. Only when the user completely logs out of the PC can the files be opened by others.

by sgt_shultz

put on xp sp2. this is known bug in xp. check it out at support.microsoft.com search mskb 'read only network drive'

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