Opening document via network.

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John Faller

In our company we are using a peer to peer network and use
shared folders to post documents that are available to
others. Since I upgraded to Office 2003 I am unable to
open documents on computers that have a space in their
name. This was not a problem with Office 2000. I am
running Office 2003 on Windows 2000 but it also gives the
same problem on another computer running on XP. Can
anybody help?
 
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garfield-n-odie

I think this is a problem with Windows XP, not Office 2003. A space is
an illegal character in a Windows XP computer name, and I suspect WinXP
won't recognize a networked computer that has a space in its name. So I
think the solution to this problem is to take the spaces out of the
names of all the computers on your network. You're gonna have to do
this anyway if you ever upgrade them to WinXP.

As for not having this problem with Office 2000, could it be that you
were only running it on Windows 95, 98, and ME? Or did you run Office
2000 on Windows 2000? Windows 2000 and XP are part of the same Windows
family, but not the same family as Win95/98/ME. I wouldn't expect
Windows 2000 to tolerate spaces in computer names any better than
Windows XP does, but I don't have Win2K to test this theory.

HTH. garfield-n-odie
 
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Guest

-----Original Message-----
I think this is a problem with Windows XP, not Office 2003. A space is
an illegal character in a Windows XP computer name, and I suspect WinXP
won't recognize a networked computer that has a space in its name. So I
think the solution to this problem is to take the spaces out of the
names of all the computers on your network. You're gonna have to do
this anyway if you ever upgrade them to WinXP.

As for not having this problem with Office 2000, could it be that you
were only running it on Windows 95, 98, and ME? Or did you run Office
2000 on Windows 2000? Windows 2000 and XP are part of the same Windows
family, but not the same family as Win95/98/ME. I wouldn't expect
Windows 2000 to tolerate spaces in computer names any better than
Windows XP does, but I don't have Win2K to test this theory.

HTH. garfield-n-odie
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Thanks for your reply. We have Office 2000 on XP with no
problem and I had Office 2000 on Windows 2000 with no
problem. The problem only appeared when some of us
installed Office 2003 (On Windows 2000 and XP).
We are most probably going to change the names to avoid
spaces as I understand it's not a good idea to have spaces
in computer names.

Thanks again,

John Faller
 
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