Save As Permissions stopped!

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Paul King

Hi I have 1x Win98 SE machine and 1x XP machine. My files are located on
the Win98 machine (shared) so that I can access them on the XP machine.

However only til recent when I open a document (Word document) up in the XP
machine and try to use Save As, this tells me that the path is either
incorrect or I do not have permissions. If however I overwrite the file,
this works fine!!

My concern is this has been working for the past 3 years and all of a sudden
stopped.

I have a LMHOSTS file on my XP machine so I know it can resolve the name
across the network.

Any ideas?

Cheers
Paul.
 
Hi I have 1x Win98 SE machine and 1x XP machine. My files are located on
the Win98 machine (shared) so that I can access them on the XP machine.

However only til recent when I open a document (Word document) up in the XP
machine and try to use Save As, this tells me that the path is either
incorrect or I do not have permissions. If however I overwrite the file,
this works fine!!

My concern is this has been working for the past 3 years and all of a sudden
stopped.

I have a LMHOSTS file on my XP machine so I know it can resolve the name
across the network.

Any ideas?

Cheers
Paul.
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Paul,

Did you recently apply Windows Update MS05-011 (aka 885250)?

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Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
My email is AT DOT
actual address pchuck sonic net.
 
Chuck,

I removed SP2 and it worked!

Thanks for your help

Regards
Paul.
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Paul,

Thanks for your feedback. Not everybody is so thoughtful, many just wander into
the ether without replying. So we frequently never know if advice worked, or if
the OP even bothered to look here again after posting.

It's interesting to discover that your symptom may have been caused by the
installation of SP2. PLEASE don't stop here. The security risk, and the short
and long term compatibility problems, that you may be causing by removing SP2,
isn't worth it.

Now take the removal of SP2 as a diagnostic tool, and figure out what the actual
problem is. In very limited circumstances does the installation of SP2 itself
cause problems. And in no circumstances is its removal a proper solution to
those problems.

--
Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
My email is AT DOT
actual address pchuck sonic net.
 
Chuck,

I removed SP2 and it worked!

Thanks for your help

Regards
Paul.
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Paul,

Thanks for your feedback. Not everybody is so thoughtful, many just wander into
the ether without replying. So we frequently never know if advice worked, or if
the OP even bothered to look here again after posting.

It's interesting to discover that your symptom may have been caused by the
installation of SP2. PLEASE don't stop here. The security risk, and the short
and long term compatibility problems, that you may be causing by removing SP2,
isn't worth it.

Now take the removal of SP2 as a diagnostic tool, and figure out what the actual
problem is. In very limited circumstances does the installation of SP2 itself
cause problems. And in no circumstances is its removal a proper solution to
those problems.

IOW, fix the problem (not the symptom), and then re install SP2.

--
Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
My email is AT DOT
actual address pchuck sonic net.
 
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