Publisher 98 error message

[briangw]

Hello. We're still running Publisher 98 here at work and we have an error
message on a few machines that we cannot get rid of.

The error is "Publisher cannot create a temproary working file." I've
googled the error and found that it's due to users saving Publisher files to
the network (which Publisher 98 was designed not to work with), which this
group is doing. However, when they tried to create files and save them
locally, they still get the error. I also followed MS's suggestion of
selecting all of the doc, copying, then pasting to a blank one and saving
locally, but the error still appears.

Thinking that a repair/reinstall would work, I tried that and it doesn't.
So, I removed the user's profile and had her create a new one and that didn't
work.

Now, the users do not have local admin rights to their PCs. Is there a
particular folder or files that I can grant admin access to that would
resolve this issue? I wonder, because when I log in, I have no issues. The
only thing left that I can think of is to reimage the PC or have their group
purchase Publisher 2003. Now, does Publisher 2003 allows users to
save/edit/create files on network shares?

 

[Mary Sauer]

Might read this:
PUB98: Installing on a Network Workstation
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;179523

 

[briangw]

Forgive me, but I'm a little confused. Isn't this article just explaining how
to install from a Network rather than a CDRom? It just doesn't make much
sense.

We've actually tried two ways here. We have a CD version that didn't work,
and our software packaging group created a MSI on our Network to install from
and that didn't work either.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Maybe this:

You can set up Microsoft Publisher 98 in a shared location so that users can run
Setup from this shared location. For additional information about using and
installing Publisher on a network, please see the Pubntwk.hlp file that is included
with Publisher 98. This file is located in the root folder on the Publisher compact
disc. Because this file is a Windows help file, you can open it directly from the
compact disc by double-clicking it in Windows Explorer.

PUB98: How to Obtain Publisher 98 Knowledge Base HTML Help File
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;185797