Re: User Templates

From: Dave Nickason [SBS MVP] (gwdibble_at_NOSPAM.frontiernet.net)
Date: 09/13/04 

Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 12:09:36 -0400

I hate to ask the obvious, but have you checked the files's attributes to
see if someone accidentally set it to "read only?" Do the users have write
access to the directory containing the file, including both the Sharing and
Security tabs?

"ac" <ac@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:DC84952F-0E77-4712-A9C1-08B7FA7DB91A@microsoft.com...
> Hi Dave
>
> Before SBS2003 (all PCs running XP Pro) I had an Excel file set up as a
> shared workbook so users on the network could make changes to it.
> When we moved to SBS2003, I copied the file to a shared folder on the
> server. Now when people open the file, they can make changes but when they
> try to close the file the get notice that it's read only. I tried
> uploading
> the file to SharePoint to access it from there, but same message.
>
> AC
>
> "Dave Nickason [SBS MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Red X means the accounts are disabled. Since they're only the templates
>> the
>> "real" accounts are modeled after, disabled is the right status for them.
>> You shouldn't make any changes to those, or to anything that appears to
>> be a
>> service or system account (like those HelpAssitant accounts on XP) in the
>> absence of a specific reason to do so.
>>
>> Please describe the circumstances in which you're seeing "read only"
>> spreadsheets. If they're on the network and User A opens the file, it
>> will
>> automatically open read-only for User B, to keep the same file from being
>> edited simultaneously by two users. And, if you open them from the
>> Outlook
>> reading or preview pane, the file will become read-only at that time.
>>
>>
>> "ac" <ac@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:334CBB8D-FD84-4797-8713-E0B2D3AC6E3E@microsoft.com...
>> > Why do the User Templates have a red X over the icon in Server
>> > Management?
>> > Could this affect my ability to share a spread*** and allow other
>> > Users
>> > to
>> > make changes (I keep getting message that spread*** is read only,
>> > even
>> > though it's not)
>> >
>> > AC
>>
>>
>>