Mattski2000

Cheers for the fast reply. I'll have a look at the modify permission. I take it that changing permissions on server 2008 is the same as server 2003?

Hello , I hope this is the correct forum to post this question. I installed server 2008 60 day trial last week. OS installed without any issues, I added the role of file server all OK. Added the server to my current sbs2003 domain without an issue. I wanted to test how fast server 2008 is at basic file serving. I setup a share with full permissions for the everyone account. I then copied files from our 2003 server to the share on the 2008 server. Network speed was good, all files copied across successfully. I can browse the share from any windows machine on the domain. I then opened a solidworks assembly from that share using a Windows XP client, the assembly opened faster than on the server 2003 machine. I was impressed, I then made a change to the assembly and pressed save, the client machine just sat there on egg timer. I checked task manager to see if solidworks was responding to find that it was showing as not responding. I had to end task. I tested this on a couple assembly's getting the same result every time. I then tested creating a word doc on the server 2008 share and then saved the document, didnt have a problem with that at all. I copied a fairly large rar file to the server without any issues. Does anyone have any suggestions or thoughts on why when saving It would crash solidworks. I can do the same process using a 2003 server and it doesn't crash solidworks. I have check permissions on the share and files, I have gone to the extent of adding the 3 users to the share and giving them full access. Hardware is Quad core CPU 8GB mem Server 2008 Std 64bit 160GB IDE OS drive Raid card with 3 HD's for Data Intel NIC thanks for any help :)