Re: File problems or is it a licencing issue?

Stop and disable the Licence Service (keep track of your licences manually)
then you can effectively rule out licensing as a possible cause (although in
this case I doubt its the cause).

"Paul" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> We operate a small business server 2000 on a PIII 1400MHz
> with a gig of ram as a domain controller. It's giving
> DNS,DHCP etc. As yet the true power of SBS is unused (
> SQL,ISA, Exchange etc) we do however have on this machine
> 2 common work areas. Basically two shared folders which
> everyone has full access to. two of the folders are
> secured with user permissions on the folders.
>
> The problems we encounter are that a user can be working
> on a document be it excel, word or similar and then when
> the user trys to save the file it says it cannot save the
> file. Here a few sub routes occur
>
> 1. The file is saved to a random temporary file and it
> tells you the name of the file
>
> 2. The file is lost
>
> 3. It may say the file is readonly or in use ( here we
> check computer management and close the open file,
> generally this is when a file has been saved sucessfully
> and then tried to be reopened a short period after )
>
> Could this be related to microsoft knowledge base article
> 319967?
>
> Or could it be a licensing issue?
>
> The SBS server has 20CALS installed on it. A total of 26
> users log on to the server with no problems. Now this
> number has increased recently as a result of upgrading 3
> windows 98 machines to windows xp ( past 3 months )and
> extra users. Of the 26 users in total on the network 7 of
> the users do not actually use the common folders,
> bringignt the user list to 19. Does SBS Server work on
> the CALS for network access? if so is it kicking a user
> off the shared area to give someone else access to it?
>
> has anyone encountered any thing similar??
> Any Ideas??
>
> Paul