File is locked for editing by '.'

[Ryan]

When opening an office document from a mapped network
drive, users receive the following message:

File ... is locked for editing by '.'

Can only open in Read-Only. Nobobdy has the file open
and it happens on EVERY file.

Any ideas?

 

[Beth Melton]

How are you opening the files? If you are opening the files outside
the application (other than using File/Open) then it sounds like the
File Association needs to be recreated.

You can recreate the file type by re-registering the applications.
This isn't the same as Registering the product. Go to Start/Run
and run the following:

winword /r
excel /regserver
powerpnt /regserver
msaccess /regserver

Note the space before the forward slash.

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[Guest]

They are double-clicking the file directly from the
mapped drive.

 

[Ghengis]

Sounds like access rights for the mapped drive.
You can confirm this by copying one of the "locked" files to a local hard
drive, then double click on it.

 

[Ryan]

Each user has full control and I even added the
group 'Everyone' with full control for that mapped drive.