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Wayne
01-16-2004, 10:57 PM
I migrated a Netware 5.0 network to Windows 2003 and now
the users can only open their Office documents as Read
Only. I have checked and they have full control of the
files but unless I make them domain admins, they have this
issue. The Read Only attrib. is off. Any ideas on how to
troubleshoot this?
Thanks
Ray at
01-16-2004, 11:13 PM
I've found that if you have a .csv file that is saved with a .xls extension
and it is saved on a Novell server, it will open read-only. The solutions
I've come up with were to either move the file to a Windows drive or rename
it with a .csv extension. I'm going far back in my memory here though, as
we wisely ditched Novell years ago. But it was something along these lines.

Ray at work

"Wayne" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:022b01c3dc84$26159bd0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I migrated a Netware 5.0 network to Windows 2003 and now
> the users can only open their Office documents as Read
> Only. I have checked and they have full control of the
> files but unless I make them domain admins, they have this
> issue. The Read Only attrib. is off. Any ideas on how to
> troubleshoot this?
> Thanks
>
Ray at
01-16-2004, 11:13 PM
I've found that if you have a .csv file that is saved with a .xls extension
and it is saved on a Novell server, it will open read-only. The solutions
I've come up with were to either move the file to a Windows drive or rename
it with a .csv extension. I'm going far back in my memory here though, as
we wisely ditched Novell years ago. But it was something along these lines.

Ray at work

"Wayne" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:022b01c3dc84$26159bd0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I migrated a Netware 5.0 network to Windows 2003 and now
> the users can only open their Office documents as Read
> Only. I have checked and they have full control of the
> files but unless I make them domain admins, they have this
> issue. The Read Only attrib. is off. Any ideas on how to
> troubleshoot this?
> Thanks
>
Wayne
01-16-2004, 11:22 PM
I went from Novell to Windows. Thats when the issue
started. Its happening with Excel files and Word files.
Haven't checked with other file types yet.
Wayne


>-----Original Message-----
>I've found that if you have a .csv file that is saved
with a .xls extension
>and it is saved on a Novell server, it will open read-
only. The solutions
>I've come up with were to either move the file to a
Windows drive or rename
>it with a .csv extension. I'm going far back in my
memory here though, as
>we wisely ditched Novell years ago. But it was something
along these lines.
>
>Ray at work
>
>"Wayne" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:022b01c3dc84$26159bd0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>> I migrated a Netware 5.0 network to Windows 2003 and now
>> the users can only open their Office documents as Read
>> Only. I have checked and they have full control of the
>> files but unless I make them domain admins, they have
this
>> issue. The Read Only attrib. is off. Any ideas on how to
>> troubleshoot this?
>> Thanks
>>
>
>
>.
>
Wayne
01-16-2004, 11:22 PM
I went from Novell to Windows. Thats when the issue
started. Its happening with Excel files and Word files.
Haven't checked with other file types yet.
Wayne


>-----Original Message-----
>I've found that if you have a .csv file that is saved
with a .xls extension
>and it is saved on a Novell server, it will open read-
only. The solutions
>I've come up with were to either move the file to a
Windows drive or rename
>it with a .csv extension. I'm going far back in my
memory here though, as
>we wisely ditched Novell years ago. But it was something
along these lines.
>
>Ray at work
>
>"Wayne" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:022b01c3dc84$26159bd0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>> I migrated a Netware 5.0 network to Windows 2003 and now
>> the users can only open their Office documents as Read
>> Only. I have checked and they have full control of the
>> files but unless I make them domain admins, they have
this
>> issue. The Read Only attrib. is off. Any ideas on how to
>> troubleshoot this?
>> Thanks
>>
>
>
>.
>
Ray at
01-17-2004, 12:10 AM
The issue I experienced is probaly unrelated then.

Permissions set right?

Ray at work

"Wayne" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:025401c3dc87$a46d0650$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I went from Novell to Windows. Thats when the issue
> started. Its happening with Excel files and Word files.
> Haven't checked with other file types yet.
> Wayne
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I've found that if you have a .csv file that is saved
> with a .xls extension
> >and it is saved on a Novell server, it will open read-
> only. The solutions
> >I've come up with were to either move the file to a
> Windows drive or rename
> >it with a .csv extension. I'm going far back in my
> memory here though, as
> >we wisely ditched Novell years ago. But it was something
> along these lines.
> >
> >Ray at work
> >
> >"Wayne" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message
> >news:022b01c3dc84$26159bd0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> >> I migrated a Netware 5.0 network to Windows 2003 and now
> >> the users can only open their Office documents as Read
> >> Only. I have checked and they have full control of the
> >> files but unless I make them domain admins, they have
> this
> >> issue. The Read Only attrib. is off. Any ideas on how to
> >> troubleshoot this?
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >
> >
> >.
> >
Ray at
01-17-2004, 12:10 AM
The issue I experienced is probaly unrelated then.

Permissions set right?

Ray at work

"Wayne" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:025401c3dc87$a46d0650$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I went from Novell to Windows. Thats when the issue
> started. Its happening with Excel files and Word files.
> Haven't checked with other file types yet.
> Wayne
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I've found that if you have a .csv file that is saved
> with a .xls extension
> >and it is saved on a Novell server, it will open read-
> only. The solutions
> >I've come up with were to either move the file to a
> Windows drive or rename
> >it with a .csv extension. I'm going far back in my
> memory here though, as
> >we wisely ditched Novell years ago. But it was something
> along these lines.
> >
> >Ray at work
> >
> >"Wayne" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message
> >news:022b01c3dc84$26159bd0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> >> I migrated a Netware 5.0 network to Windows 2003 and now
> >> the users can only open their Office documents as Read
> >> Only. I have checked and they have full control of the
> >> files but unless I make them domain admins, they have
> this
> >> issue. The Read Only attrib. is off. Any ideas on how to
> >> troubleshoot this?
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >
> >
> >.
> >
Matthew Mucker [MSFT]
01-17-2004, 04:49 PM
See if http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=814112 addresses this issue.

-Matt

"Wayne" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:022b01c3dc84$26159bd0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I migrated a Netware 5.0 network to Windows 2003 and now
> the users can only open their Office documents as Read
> Only. I have checked and they have full control of the
> files but unless I make them domain admins, they have this
> issue. The Read Only attrib. is off. Any ideas on how to
> troubleshoot this?
> Thanks
>
Matthew Mucker [MSFT]
01-17-2004, 04:49 PM
See if http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=814112 addresses this issue.

-Matt

"Wayne" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:022b01c3dc84$26159bd0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I migrated a Netware 5.0 network to Windows 2003 and now
> the users can only open their Office documents as Read
> Only. I have checked and they have full control of the
> files but unless I make them domain admins, they have this
> issue. The Read Only attrib. is off. Any ideas on how to
> troubleshoot this?
> Thanks
>
Drew Cooper [MSFT]
01-20-2004, 12:43 AM
Another guess: Do the users have write access in the folder that holds the
files? Office apps will try to create temp files there when you open for
edit.
--
Drew Cooper [MSFT]
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.


"Wayne" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:022b01c3dc84$26159bd0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I migrated a Netware 5.0 network to Windows 2003 and now
> the users can only open their Office documents as Read
> Only. I have checked and they have full control of the
> files but unless I make them domain admins, they have this
> issue. The Read Only attrib. is off. Any ideas on how to
> troubleshoot this?
> Thanks
>
Drew Cooper [MSFT]
01-20-2004, 12:43 AM
Another guess: Do the users have write access in the folder that holds the
files? Office apps will try to create temp files there when you open for
edit.
--
Drew Cooper [MSFT]
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.


"Wayne" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:022b01c3dc84$26159bd0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I migrated a Netware 5.0 network to Windows 2003 and now
> the users can only open their Office documents as Read
> Only. I have checked and they have full control of the
> files but unless I make them domain admins, they have this
> issue. The Read Only attrib. is off. Any ideas on how to
> troubleshoot this?
> Thanks
>
Don
01-21-2004, 02:14 PM
Hello,
Have you heard any response in regard to your posting
below? I have a similar situation but with only one of my
users.
It began last May and we worked with Microsoft Support for
a couple of months. We updated the MS Office Service packs
to the most recent, updated the MS Windows Service Packs,
reinstalled MS Office, and finally redid the pc from
scratch. Microsoft also wanted us to copy "ALL" the files
this person uses to her local drive and only access them
from there. We tried this but it was hard because the user
pulls from a variety of shared drives on our Network. When
I redid the user's pc, I left off the Novell client since
she no longer needed access to our "lone" Novell Server.
Our biggest problem was that the users problem was very
intermittant. Sometimes it might be fine for a couple of
days, other days it would happen repeatedly. Makes it hard
when trouuble shooting.
The pc redo seemed to work fine for awhile. In October her
hard disk crashed and I need to redo the pc again. Over
the past couple of weeks the problem seems to be coming
back again. Yesterday it happened a number of times with
the same Word document. The only thing I noticed is that
if you right click on the file, select "properties", click
on the "Advanced" button under the "General" tab, and look
in the Archive and Index attributes section, there was a
check in the box next to: "File is ready for archiving".
In a number of folders this user has, this was the only
file that had this checked. Not sure at this point if I've
tripped onto something or not. I'm currently waiting for
the problem to happen again so I can check the next file.

Don


>-----Original Message-----
>I migrated a Netware 5.0 network to Windows 2003 and now
>the users can only open their Office documents as Read
>Only. I have checked and they have full control of the
>files but unless I make them domain admins, they have
this
>issue. The Read Only attrib. is off. Any ideas on how to
>troubleshoot this?
>Thanks
>
>.
>
Don
01-21-2004, 02:14 PM
Hello,
Have you heard any response in regard to your posting
below? I have a similar situation but with only one of my
users.
It began last May and we worked with Microsoft Support for
a couple of months. We updated the MS Office Service packs
to the most recent, updated the MS Windows Service Packs,
reinstalled MS Office, and finally redid the pc from
scratch. Microsoft also wanted us to copy "ALL" the files
this person uses to her local drive and only access them
from there. We tried this but it was hard because the user
pulls from a variety of shared drives on our Network. When
I redid the user's pc, I left off the Novell client since
she no longer needed access to our "lone" Novell Server.
Our biggest problem was that the users problem was very
intermittant. Sometimes it might be fine for a couple of
days, other days it would happen repeatedly. Makes it hard
when trouuble shooting.
The pc redo seemed to work fine for awhile. In October her
hard disk crashed and I need to redo the pc again. Over
the past couple of weeks the problem seems to be coming
back again. Yesterday it happened a number of times with
the same Word document. The only thing I noticed is that
if you right click on the file, select "properties", click
on the "Advanced" button under the "General" tab, and look
in the Archive and Index attributes section, there was a
check in the box next to: "File is ready for archiving".
In a number of folders this user has, this was the only
file that had this checked. Not sure at this point if I've
tripped onto something or not. I'm currently waiting for
the problem to happen again so I can check the next file.

Don


>-----Original Message-----
>I migrated a Netware 5.0 network to Windows 2003 and now
>the users can only open their Office documents as Read
>Only. I have checked and they have full control of the
>files but unless I make them domain admins, they have
this
>issue. The Read Only attrib. is off. Any ideas on how to
>troubleshoot this?
>Thanks
>
>.
>