A few days ago I send a message titled "A samba question or a mutt
question".
I got a few repies but they suggested wide work-arounds to the problem. I
have done some more work and it is clear it is not anything to do with
the mail side of what I was trying. The question or problem I have is
essentially this:-
How do you double click on a MS Word icon to bring the document into
MS Word when the Word file is on a samba share to a unix machine either
in a tmp share or my home share?
I have samba on two unix machines and with a Windows 95 box these make
up my workgroup. Firing up Word in this way works fine from one unix
machine (a DEC alpha) but fails from the other (a IBM RS6000). The
failure brings up Word but does not open the document. The error box
says "Word cannot open the document K:\file.doc" and in the top bar of
the error window it says "Microsoft Word Err=1025". It is Word 6 I am
using. Now we have Word on dozens of machines and would think we had a
manual around somewhere, but no - I've been looking for one for 2 days.
Does anyone know what error 1025 is? It might throw some light on the
problem. Apart from that does anyone have any other thoughts?
Excel files do exactly the same. They work on Dec alpha and fail on
RS6000. However html files and files with extension for a browser
pluggin fire up internet explorer and display fine. If I click on a
*.txt file on the RS6000 share, it asks me for an application and if
I select MS Word it works fine. It is just the *.doc and *.xls files
that fail and then only in the RS6000 case. I can see no relevent
differences between the two machines.
It would be nice to have this working.
Regards, Brian.
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According to m$, Word Error 1025 means (but I don't think it will help
much)...
PSS ID Number: Q110279
Article last modified on 02-07-1998
6.0
WINDOWS
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The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Word for Windows, version 6.0
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SYMPTOMS
=======
When you try to start a wizard in Word for Windows, you may receive the
following error message:
Error 1025: Cannot open the document
CAUSE
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This problem occurs when you are not loading Share in the AUTOEXEC.BAT
file.
RESOLUTION
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Word version 6.0 requires that you load Share in order to run its wizards
if you are running Word under Windows 3.1.
To add SHARE to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
1. Edit the AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
2. Add the entry below, where <dir> is the location of the directory that
contains your MS-DOS files:
<dir>\SHARE /L:500 /F:5100
MORE INFORMATION
===============
To run Word 6.0 under Windows 3.1 or Windows for Workgroups 3.1 in standard
mode, you must run the MS-DOS SHARE command before starting Windows. Word
uses Share for object linking and embedding (OLE) version 2.0 operations.
Specifically, Share provides the range-locking functionality that Word uses
in compound files. Word 6.0 will not start under Windows 3.1 or Windows for
Workgroups 3.1 in standard mode unless SHARE.EXE is loaded.
You do not need SHARE.EXE if you run Word under Windows for Workgroups 3.1
in enhanced (386) mode or Windows for Workgroups 3.11. Windows for
Workgroups uses a comparable file-sharing utility called VSHARE.386. Word
6.0a includes a version of VSHARE.386 for Windows 3.1 users. If you are
using Word 6.0a and operating Windows in the 386 Enhanced mode, VSHARE.386
replaces the need to load the MS-DOS SHARE utility. Similarly, you do not
need SHARE.EXE if you run Word under Windows NT because this operating
system includes built-in range-locking functionality.
KBCategory: kberrmsg
KBSubcategory: kbtemplate
Additional query words: 6.0 winword msmail mail word6
=====================================================================Keywords
: kbole kbsetup kbtemplate
Version : 6.0
Platform : WINDOWS
============================================================================Copyright
Microsoft Corporation 1998.
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