Hi,
At work we've recently had to replace a freecom fsg server and decided to get a network drive with just a samba server since that's all we really needed it for, sharing files on our network. The 500GB new box seems to work well with most of our computers, however, we have a couple win98 machines that it doesn't seem to work that well with.
Specifically, how excel 2003 seems to deal with files on the drive. The issues we're having are:
If any of this makes sense we would appreciate any suggestions for help!
Cheers
At work we've recently had to replace a freecom fsg server and decided to get a network drive with just a samba server since that's all we really needed it for, sharing files on our network. The 500GB new box seems to work well with most of our computers, however, we have a couple win98 machines that it doesn't seem to work that well with.
Specifically, how excel 2003 seems to deal with files on the drive. The issues we're having are:
- If we drag and drop a file off the drive into excel, it has breaks the file up by the spaces, i.e., "hello world.xls" would be opened as "hello.xls" and "world.xls". This does not occur if we navigate in the open file dialog, so not a major issue.
- More importantly, any excel files we open on there we are unable to save on there. We get a disk full error whenever we try to save, say, "hello world.xls" to the network drive, despite the fact that there's several hundred of GB free and there's no quota (the samba server doesn't even have users to set quota's on!). We can however save new files and copy files to and from the drive. This particular error seems to be fairly common judging by how many hits I get when I google it (though few are any use), I'm surprised we didn't see it before with the previous server we ran.
If any of this makes sense we would appreciate any suggestions for help!
Cheers