Office 2000

[CompuDocs]

I have recently upgraded my office pc to Win2000 and I still have a couple of problems to figure out.

The first is my previously installed MSOFFICE 2000 network installation. Previously, all othe PCS on the network (all Win98SE) were able to connect and update files as needed from the shared Office folder on the Admin PC. Now they can't. The permissions I beleive are set ok as they can browse the shared folders. But I get the message that Office cannot find the file that was requested. Will a new administrative install onto the Admin PC fix this?

Second is the Quickbooks issue. I had been able to access the QBW file from another PC, but now I get the message that another PC is using the file, which it isn't. If I reboot both PCS, then the remote PC can access the file.

Any help?

Charlie


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[Lycia]

Are you sure that the file system is still FAT32 and not NTFS. In the install for win2000, there is a section that asks if you want to upgrad the file system to NTFS. If you check yes, then Windows95/98/ME will not be able to read the contents of the NTFS drive.

There may be a third party software that will convert NTFS back to FAT32. Otherwaise, you would have to use Fdisk to delete the DOS/other partition and repartition in FAT32.

[CompuDocs]

Nope, FAT32 on all machines. See, I can browse the folders.

[Budster64]

Originally posted by lycia69:
Are you sure that the file system is still FAT32 and not NTFS. In the install for win2000, there is a section that asks if you want to upgrad the file system to NTFS. If you check yes, then Windows95/98/ME will not be able to read the contents of the NTFS drive.

There may be a third party software that will convert NTFS back to FAT32. Otherwaise, you would have to use Fdisk to delete the DOS/other partition and repartition in FAT32.

as long as the folders/drives are shared properly a 9X user on another networked machine will be able to read them. What your talking about mainly applies to a dual boot wherein your Win2k/NT partition is NTFS , when you boot into 9X the NTFS partition will be unreadable heck you won't even see them. I do this purposely not only for the security but to prevent any 98 apps from writing over any Win2K files inadvertantly.

[Budster64]

Originally posted by CompuDocs:
I have recently upgraded my office pc to Win2000 and I still have a couple of problems to figure out.

The first is my previously installed MSOFFICE 2000 network installation. Previously, all othe PCS on the network (all Win98SE) were able to connect and update files as needed from the shared Office folder on the Admin PC. Now they can't. The permissions I beleive are set ok as they can browse the shared folders. But I get the message that Office cannot find the file that was requested. Will a new administrative install onto the Admin PC fix this?

Second is the Quickbooks issue. I had been able to access the QBW file from another PC, but now I get the message that another PC is using the file, which it isn't. If I reboot both PCS, then the remote PC can access the file.

Any help?

Charlie


Previou

did you reinstall Office after the upgrade?
try doing that, I know Outlook needs to be reinstalled after a Win2K upgrade for sure.

[CompuDocs]

Budster, I have re-installed Outlook, had to, but I didn't reinstall the entire Office Suite. What I wonder is should I do a brand new Administrative Install of Office, then re-install on all other machines from there?

Anything on Quickbooks?

Thanks for the replies,

Charlie