mystery file

[cbcb52]

My Office network , works with five computers . In one of them I
run an old Pentium 3 , with 384 MB memory .
No problem at all with the old puter ; At startup ,the 4 client
computers copy the content of a folder at the server ( 16 files ,44MB)
This is the way it works so that all of them have the same version
of a program ( updated at night ).
Now , the Pentium 3 cannot copy 1 file from the the folder above
( at the server )server (16Mb) .It stops copying because " the network
path is no longer valid ".
I don´t use mapping ( no need to ) and I can copy all other files
from this folder.
The files in the folder are not in use ( they are there just for
copying ) ; I can copy any other file from this folder to Pentium 3 ,
but not this one . Even manualy it won´t copy , " Network path ..."
I happens with this machine only ; last week I formated Pentium 3,
and - surprise - problem persists .
The only way to copy this file is with a pen drive , and copy to P3.

Not a big problem but it nags me . And I hav no idea of how to solve
this mistery.
all machines , XP PRO SP2.

thanks for your input :-)

[Tim Meddick]

Have you checked the file permissions for the particular file in
question?

If not - do so - by right-clicking on it (in Explorer) and choosing
'Properties' then check out the 'Security' tab.

If NOT users=read permissions or above OR everyone=read permissions or
above then set (Add) one of these generic user names with read (or
above) permissions.

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




<cbcb52> wrote in message
...
>
> My Office network , works with five computers . In one of them I
> run an old Pentium 3 , with 384 MB memory .
> No problem at all with the old puter ; At startup ,the 4 client
> computers copy the content of a folder at the server ( 16 files ,44MB)
> This is the way it works so that all of them have the same version
> of a program ( updated at night ).
> Now , the Pentium 3 cannot copy 1 file from the the folder above
> ( at the server )server (16Mb) .It stops copying because " the network
> path is no longer valid ".
> I don´t use mapping ( no need to ) and I can copy all other files
> from this folder.
> The files in the folder are not in use ( they are there just for
> copying ) ; I can copy any other file from this folder to Pentium 3 ,
> but not this one . Even manualy it won´t copy , " Network path ..."
> I happens with this machine only ; last week I formated Pentium 3,
> and - surprise - problem persists .
> The only way to copy this file is with a pen drive , and copy to P3.
>
> Not a big problem but it nags me . And I hav no idea of how to solve
> this mistery.
> all machines , XP PRO SP2.
>
> thanks for your input :-)

[cbcb52]

All machines are FAT32

On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:45:36 +0100, "Tim Meddick"
> wrote:

>Have you checked the file permissions for the particular file in
>question?
>
>If not - do so - by right-clicking on it (in Explorer) and choosing
>'Properties' then check out the 'Security' tab.
>
>If NOT users=read permissions or above OR everyone=read permissions or
>above then set (Add) one of these generic user names with read (or
>above) permissions.
>
>==
>
>Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)
>
>
>
>
><cbcb52> wrote in message
...
>>
>> My Office network , works with five computers . In one of them I
>> run an old Pentium 3 , with 384 MB memory .
>> No problem at all with the old puter ; At startup ,the 4 client
>> computers copy the content of a folder at the server ( 16 files ,44MB)
>> This is the way it works so that all of them have the same version
>> of a program ( updated at night ).
>> Now , the Pentium 3 cannot copy 1 file from the the folder above
>> ( at the server )server (16Mb) .It stops copying because " the network
>> path is no longer valid ".
>> I don´t use mapping ( no need to ) and I can copy all other files
>> from this folder.
>> The files in the folder are not in use ( they are there just for
>> copying ) ; I can copy any other file from this folder to Pentium 3 ,
>> but not this one . Even manualy it won´t copy , " Network path ..."
>> I happens with this machine only ; last week I formated Pentium 3,
>> and - surprise - problem persists .
>> The only way to copy this file is with a pen drive , and copy to P3.
>>
>> Not a big problem but it nags me . And I hav no idea of how to solve
>> this mistery.
>> all machines , XP PRO SP2.
>>
>> thanks for your input :-)
>