Subject: Re: excel won't read files
From: James Broermann (james@hwr.arizona.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 08 2000 - 12:30:49 EST
One person responded saying they had the same problem. They chose a
non-netatalk solution.
I put asun2.1.4 on redhat 6.0 and that didn't seem to work for me
either.
I put 990130 on a sunos 4.1.4 system and the excel problem disapeared.
???
Jim
james@hwr.arizona.edu#U of Arizona - Hydrology & Water Resources#520-621-4187
On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, James Broermann wrote:
>
> Anybody know how to fix this?
>
> excel will read MS exel workbook files from netatalk volumes, but will
> not read other formats, such as text from netatalk volumes. MS word
> will read these files OK.
>
> If the text file is "dragged and dropped" to the desktop, excel
> will read it.
>
> excel reads non-excel files from the apple server (quadra running 7.6
> and appleshare of the same time period). So, I guessing it has
> something to do with netatalk. I tried changing the top level
> directory of the netatalk volume to group writable -- .AppleDouble/
> and Network Trash Folder/ were created, but still no luck getting the
> file into excel. The excel error message is
>
> "xyz.dat cannot be accessed. The file may be read-only or you
> may be trying to open a read-only location. Or, the server
> where the document is stored is not responding."
>
> As far as I can tell its not read-only and server is working; files
> can be copied back and forth to that folder.
>
> sever is solaris 2.7 and netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.4
>
> Any help will be appreciated. One of the mac people here
> is sure this was working before.
>
> Thanks, Jim
>
> james@hwr.arizona.edu#U of Arizona - Hydrology & Water Resources#520-621-4187
>
>
>
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