Hello
On Friday I took delivery of a new laptop pre loaded with Windows 7 Ultimate.
I am delighted with the computer BUT???
I have administrator rights.
I have joined my company Domain on a server running Small Business Server 2003, and I am experiencing 2 problems which may be related.
The domain name is ???woodroyd.local??? when I join with that name Windows Explorer can???t access files on the network and I can???t map network drives. The laptop can see and print to a network printer.
If I then re-join the domain using just the name ???Woodroyd??? then I can access network files and map network drives. Strangely if I then look at the Computer name/domain changes dialog the domain is still listed as ???woodroyd.local???
Things work OK for a while but eventually after a number or reboots Windows Explorer access to the network drives fail. Then the only way to restore full access is to re join with the name ???Woodroyd.??? Mapped drives continue to work as does Outlook whether or not Windows Explorer can access the network.
I do understand that the ???local??? extension is added automatically.
The second part of the problem is that network files (when I can access them) load onto the laptop but when I come to save them the computer reports them as read only. This is true of Word and Excel documents and my client record keeping programme (coded as an Access front end with data files on the server) fails at start up reporting the data files as read only.
None of these problems are seen from another laptop which has been in service for about a year running XP SP3 and which is using ???Woodroyd.local??? to join the domain.
I have checked the files and certainly none of them are read only and they can be accessed from other computers. When they fail on the new laptop, they are not in use elsewhere. Files loaded onto the new laptop over the network from the laptop running XP using Windows Explorer save without a problem to the source laptop but will not save to a folder on the server: the generated error is disk full or damaged etc.
I???m going round the bend attempting to sort this out. I have just about exhausted Google searching for a solution. It appears to be a common problem but there does not appear to be a common answer.
If this continues I shall have no option but to ditch Windows 7 and install XP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.