Based on what you just said I would look for someone fooling around in AD if I
was you.
Jon
> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 17:34:55 -0700
> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Adobe Reader can't open PDFs over the WAN
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
>
> Hmmmm.....
>
> I'm pretty familiar with our security settings, and AFAIK we don't
> have anything client-side that restricts that. Again, this is a change
> in behavior over this past weekend, when we flipped from a bare Win2k3
> server to a 2012R2 server.
>
> Or perhaps this is something on the server side? Is that what you're implying?
>
> Then again, I'm just back from 5 weeks of paternity leave, and might
> have missed some fiddling in the environment. Between that and lack of
> sleep, anything is possible.
>
> Kurt
>
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Ah, there is a GPO and/or secpol that controls this. Anything in a list of
> > documents with macro capabilities...
> >
> > Of course, you are going to ask me "which one" and I just don't remember.
> > But I've run into it before...
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff
> > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 7:54 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Adobe Reader can't open PDFs over the WAN
> >
> > The PDFs are all I've heard about so far.
> >
> > I don't have any office apps installed on my test machine - I'll ping the
> > complaining user to see if he can verify with a spreadsheet and/or a Word
> > doc.
> >
> > Kurt
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 4:34 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Just PDFs? Or are other docs affected?
> >>
> >> From: Kurt Buff
> >> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 7:27 PM
> >> To: [email protected]
> >>
> >> All,
> >>
> >> A user in our AU office on a Win7 machine is complaining about
> >> inability to open PDFs from our US file server. The error he gets is:
> >>
> >> "There was an error opening this document. The network path was
> >> not found."
> >>
> >> I am able to duplicate this on another Win7 machine in our AU office.
> >>
> >> This started happening after this past weekend, during which we
> >> switched from a Server 2003 VM to a 2012R2 VM.
> >>
> >> I've asked him to verify the version of Reader he's using. I installed
> >> 11.0.09 on my test machine over there. I also turned off "Enable
> >> Protected Mode at startup", per several web sites.
> >>
> >> Interestingly, he can open the PDF if he copies locally, or to a share
> >> on the file server in his office, and I can open it just fine from the
> >> US file server also. It's only across the WAN that it fails.
> >>
> >> Anyone else run into this, and have any insight?
> >>
> >> Kurt
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
