Publisher Problem

[Mike]

Volunteer Nancy C. Benner Janyszeski Answers


Subject MS Publisher 2000 Problem
Question I'm using Pub 2000 in on a Pent 4 3.06GHz processor 512 mb ram. Publisher is installed on the local drive (c. Problem is when trying to open a publisher file from the network share it won't open. The files are on a NT Server 4.0 shared directory with full access to all users. When trying to open the file all it does is close publisher completely. If I do manage to get a file open when I try to save it the message appears stating that the destination drive (S:\shared) is full. An examination of the drive shows that more than 8GB of space is free. I'm at a loss. I've searched MS and loaded all service packs but still no progress. What I need is to be able to open, edit and then save a publisher file to the shared directory. Any help is appreaciated. Thanks

Mike

Answer Mike, you would have to have a network installation of Publisher to open a Publisher file.

Nancy

Nancy,
Don't know if this is the fix to this. The reason I state this is we also have a shared directory for personal files and I am able to open, edit, and save to this folder. If I can open from one share and not the other then I don't see how doing a net install of Publisher will help.

 

[°°°MS°Publisher°°°]

Mike, I don't know what you are asking, but if it is about running Publisher
on a network - well it does not.

You have to save to the local hard drive, shut down Publisher and then copy
or move the Publisher file to the network drive.

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[Mike]

Another note: When using Publisher 2000 I CAN access pub files on the \\personal\ drive space on the server. I can edit, save, etc and haven't encountered any problems (yet). When I copy a pub file from the \\shared\bulletin directory on the same server I CAN'T open the file, Publisher blinks and then back to my normal Windows screen. When I copy the file from the \\shared\bulletin directory on the server to the local (c:\) hard drive, same thing happens. My delima continues. Are these files corrupt? Is there a way to recover? Also this problem just started happening when new PC's were installed. Prior to that all WAS working fine (over the network). Any other suggestions would be helpful other than Publisher won't work on a network. I've tried all I can think of at this point including booting to safe mode to see if it runs, Norton isn't installed (yet), all service packs have been loaded, etc. One suggestion was trying a network install. I don't know if this is the solution or not since I can open some pub files in one directory and not the other. If more info is needed please ask and I'll supply the info. Ideas, anyone

 

[Brian Kvalheim - [MS MVP]]

Hi °°°MS°Publisher°°° ([email protected]),
in the Microsoft® newsgroups
you posted:

|| Mike, I don't know what you are asking, but if it is about running
|| Publisher on a network - well it does not.
||
|| You have to save to the local hard drive, shut down Publisher and
|| then copy or move the Publisher file to the network drive.


It works fine over a network. There are a couple known issues, but other
than that, Publisher is network ready!

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Brian Kvalheim
Microsoft Office Publisher MVP
Official Publisher MVP Site:
http://www.kvalheim.org

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.

 

[°°°MS°Publisher°°°]

Mike just open access to all on the root drive of the server and then it
will work.
No other solution.

You will get file corruption using Publisher on a network.

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