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John Lawler
Hi, I've done a couple of hours of research and experimentation on this
problem so far and have gotten mostly no where.
I have a client who just installed Office 2007 (on Windows XP SP3) in an
environment where we're running an NT 4 Server as the Domain controller and
file server (yes I know, it's hopelessly outdated and unsupported, but
please, if that's all the input you have, stop reading now).
It seems that everyone who's had this problem in Office 2007+ is having it
on Vista and that it might be related to Offline Files (we've disable that,
and it does no good), etc. I don't think those scenarios apply to us.
The network location we're trying to save to is one of the shares on the NT
4 server we've always used for most shared files and which has never been a
problem (including through Office 2003). I gather that some extra security
attributes are possibly required now w/ 2007+ that I'm guessing may not be
properly set on my NT 4 shares. I've already verified that they're enabled
for Full Control, and then even set them up with Special Access and granted
all permissions except Take Ownership.
Does anyone have any insight into what may've changed with Office 2007 and
perhaps have a vague memory of how these security settings are directly (or
at all) compatible with NT 4 (as in, pehaps NT 4 does not support the
permission types that are now required, and thus Office 2007 thinks the
permissions are denied)?
That's my best guess. I'd greatly appreciate any insight you may have.
For the record, we have loose plans for moving off NT 4 server within the
next 1-2 years, but frankly, this has been one of the first hard problems
we've really had with the server software (at least I think that's what it
is), but if I can't solve this now, my customer may have to revert to his
previous version of Office until we do that.
problem so far and have gotten mostly no where.
I have a client who just installed Office 2007 (on Windows XP SP3) in an
environment where we're running an NT 4 Server as the Domain controller and
file server (yes I know, it's hopelessly outdated and unsupported, but
please, if that's all the input you have, stop reading now).
It seems that everyone who's had this problem in Office 2007+ is having it
on Vista and that it might be related to Offline Files (we've disable that,
and it does no good), etc. I don't think those scenarios apply to us.
The network location we're trying to save to is one of the shares on the NT
4 server we've always used for most shared files and which has never been a
problem (including through Office 2003). I gather that some extra security
attributes are possibly required now w/ 2007+ that I'm guessing may not be
properly set on my NT 4 shares. I've already verified that they're enabled
for Full Control, and then even set them up with Special Access and granted
all permissions except Take Ownership.
Does anyone have any insight into what may've changed with Office 2007 and
perhaps have a vague memory of how these security settings are directly (or
at all) compatible with NT 4 (as in, pehaps NT 4 does not support the
permission types that are now required, and thus Office 2007 thinks the
permissions are denied)?
That's my best guess. I'd greatly appreciate any insight you may have.
For the record, we have loose plans for moving off NT 4 server within the
next 1-2 years, but frankly, this has been one of the first hard problems
we've really had with the server software (at least I think that's what it
is), but if I can't solve this now, my customer may have to revert to his
previous version of Office until we do that.