[THIN] Re: PowerPoint XP/Office 2000 Save Errors
- From: George Yobst <george.yobst@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:10:31 -0800
Why are you mixing PowerPoint XP with Office 2K?
I don't have Neoware, only Wyse, so this might be off base,
but are there any driver issues? How about saving really, really
huge spreadsheets or Word doc's (1.3Mb)? -George
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:32:38 -0500, Michael Cox
<michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have recently setup a Win2k3 Terminal Server (no Citrix) and Neoware
> XPEmbedded thin-clients for public access in our library. We are having a
> problem with PowerPoint XP when trying to save to the floppy disks (or any
> other local drive on the thin-client, such as a memory key). I have them
> shortcuts to them on the desktop as "Floppy Disk" and "USB Device" mapped to
> \\TSCLIENT\A and \\TSCLIENT\E, which obviously point to a:\ and e:\ on the
> neoware client. The problem is that when we attempt to save to them in
> PowerPoint XP we almost always receive a "There was an error accessing
> \\TSCLIENT\A". This seems to occur more often as the size of the file
> increases as saving works correctly when it is just 3-4 slides, but around
> 5-6 and on the error starts to occur. Also, the Floppy Drive icon will
> always show up on the desktop, but when selecting the Desktop in the Save
> To... dialog of PowerPoint XP only the USB Device will show up, not the
> Floppy Drive, even though they are on the same place in the desktop. This
> problem only occurs with PowerPoint XP as it is the only portion of Office
> XP we have installed (our versions of Word/Excel/Publisher are all 2000).
>
> Any ideas on this problem or suggestions on how to setup our shortcuts to
> the WinXPe client devices?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Michael Cox
> IT Administrator
> Saline District Library
> Saline, MI USA
> michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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