x-serve conflict with Office X

[BC Nan]

I am a new x-serve administrator. And I am having trouble. I have
created student accounts on a high school server. I installed Office
X on the client machines. I selected the Office X folder on the client
machines and changed all of the ownerships and permissions to read and
write. Under details I did the same RW using the
"Apply to enclosed items". Some of my clients when they log in are
able to save Microsoft documents. Other are not. Sometimes a prompt
comes up saying can not save global template? Any suggestions? I have
deleted the users who are have this problem and recreated a new user
for the student/students who have these problems. This did not help.
The user accounts that are having problems can save using text edit.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

I'm quite clueless about server administration--but one suggestion.

Word depends heavily on the Normal template, writing to it very frequently.
In Office X, the Normal template is in the app folder, while Office 2004
made a big improvement by putting the Normal template in the MS User Data
folder. I think the global template message might be coming from not being
able to write to Normal in the app folder. However, you can--and
should--move the Normal template to the MUD folder for each of your
students. See here for info and instructions:
http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/MacWordNormal.htm
(hit refresh a few times in Safari, or use a different browser)

Also, there's a lot of good information about permissions and limited users
in this thread, which may help:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage/browse_
frm/thread/e904ae220e413e7/8a5f2a183e74c5ce

Possibly someone who understands permissions and client machines more than I
do will come along and offer more help.