Change to read-only

[ohiocad]

Have a problem here, on numerous workstations....

Using Acad 2000 LT, on NT4 workstations, one of the drafters here will open a drawing, work on it, save it (without closing it), then work on it some more. When they go to save it next time, it sometimes gives a sharing violation, because someone else also opened the drawing in the meantime, and it gave the new session control of the drawing. When the original drafter tries to save it, it changes the window name at the top to <drawing name>-read only.

Anyone else ever run across this? If so, is this a network glitch, or an Autocad glitch?

Thanks in advance

 

[borgunit]

That sounds like a network problem. AutoCAD no longer controls permissions to the drawing (with one execption, you can open drawings as read-only by choice). The operating system marks files as read-only (opened) or write (closed), and controls others use of them.

 

[ohiocad]

Any idea where that setting could be? I haven't got admin passwords for the server, and not sure if the boss would know where to find that one.....

Running Win2k Server... I haven't ever played with that to know where to find things.

 

[borgunit]

We have to &quot;reset&quot; (reboot) the server to return permissions to the files. We do this nightly. We have tried to manually override and reset the permissions but this does not always work. You may try it, but you will have to have admin rights to do it.