PT 2004 / Vista

Posted by Ted on January 24, 2008, 10:48 am

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Hi all.

I have a customer with a problem about which I lack experience that I trust may
be a question of interest to this group.

He can have PT 2004 installed on a Vista box networked to a WinXP file server,
but he hasn't been able to have PT 2004 installed on a WinXP box networked to a
Vista file server.

What is it that he may not be doing correctly?

Alternatively, could this be one of the generic shortcomings of Vista WinXP
networking.

Can the solution be found within this link
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.comp.software.financial.peachtree/browse_thread/thread/d150bbc8ce680257/5e1fac73c4e58f86?hl=en&lnk=st&q=#5e1fac73c4e58f86

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His narrative

Sat evening :
after having tested the installation on my home network (xp), headed to the
office to install on the vista machine, thinking it was a done deal. Took me
more than an hour of stubbornness to succeed. I started the installation 5
times, kept giving me error messages about an help.file, like a clockwork every
40 secs or so. It would then go through the 100% of the installation and then
just hang there. I was about to give up, when on the last try I decided not to
unselect the sample company and tutorial etc. on the first screen. It allowed
the installation to continue after completion of the main program and complete.

Sun morning :
move the company folders to the vista machine, everything looked fine

Mon afternoon :
After the vista computer was integrated to the network, made the datapath on
the xp pro station to point to the vista machine company files directory.
Peachtree would not open, instead It kept giving an error (on writing to the
status.dat file), permissions were completely open, so we cannot figure out
why. We ended up having the company directory on the xppro pc, and the vista
peachtree to point to that directory. Everything looks fine until now. If you
have any idea on how to correct for the problem, please let me know, because I'd
much rather have my company directory on the vista pc.
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thks,

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