Browsing network shares is fine, but whenever i try to open a wordperfect document from a server, i get an error: "This document (\\server\document.wpd) is in use or is specified as read-only. You may edit the document, but you must save it with a new name. Continue?" YES / NO I click Yes to continue, but then i get another error "The file '\\server\document.wpd', as specified in the execution parameters, cannot be opened." then it opens up a blank document. Other files, however, will open fine. I've opened another text (notepad) document from the server and saved it, and it works fine. If i create a wordpad document from the client on the server, then i can access it from both computers, but if i create a wordperfect document from the server and try to access it from the client, then i get those errors. I've read on microsofts website at the following link: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;328170 and i've tried some of their steps to fix it, but none of them have worked. I've read on microsoft that this is a WindowsXP Error and not a wordperfect error. I have no AntiVirus software on either of them and the firewall program on the server is disabled. I know this problem on another's machines as well. Also if i try to copy the wpd files to the desktop, then i get an error reading the file. I've also tried installing the SMB fix, but that didn't help. Any prompt response would be appreciative... (Both machines are running XP Home)

Move the files to a folder on the machine you're tying to access. In other words, the server. Then make sure the permissions are set correctly. If, when you setup WordPerfect, you did it across the network, you may run into permission problems because of the way WordPerfect installs. Microsoft Excel will do the same thing to you over a network. Weird, but you can get around it. Larry

but see, the problem is that i can access certain files...it's just the wordperfect documents in which i get the error. And Microsoft says it's windows XP. The link i posted says it's got to do with reading headers at the same time... i can open a different files (notepad file .txt and gifs), but when i try to access a wordperfect document created on the server, then it receieves that error

Again, is this a possibility? "If, when you setup WordPerfect, you did it across the network, you may run into permission problems because of the way WordPerfect installs."

I agree with seawatch. Looks to be a bug that is within XP. If you tried the MS fixes and it still doesn't work then hopefully there is another fix. The copy to the desktop and error means something else is wrong. Any file ought to be copied correctly. I would look into that first. You might try saving as html or rtf to avoid that for now?

This is kind of the problem I had, I use the Firefox browser and I have 3 computers in the house. If I use Firefox to download something to my documents on machine A. I can't access that file from machine B. or C. I can access any other files but the ones downloaded with Firefox. Now if I download the files with Firefox to my documents on the A. machine and then move the file to a different folder like my documents\new files with windows explorer, the files are completely accessable to all the computers. I told this to the Firefox forum and they thought I was crazy. Do like seawatch says and move the file on the server and see if moving it with explorer makes a difference. It might have something to do with the Microsoft filesharing not trusting a file that has not been put in the by a Microsoft program.

I didn't install over a network... i can't access files created from the server and put into the folder, but i can access files created from the client straight onto the server....but if i open that working file from the server and save it again, it becomes useless to the client because the client can't access the file again i can't save them, because i have hundreds of files already like this that need to be shared throughout the network