I had an excel sheet on a shared folder located on a slave drive, I would protect and unprotect it only when someone was putting monthly report data on it.

I recently reformatted the drive to NTFS from FAT32, restored the folders and everything is fine except I cannot open excel files from the computer where the slave drive is physically in. They open fine from any other computer, and if I copy the file to the desktop (from another computer) I can open it. I get the message- cannot open, file may be read only or protected.

I cannot figure this out, I can open other files in that same folder (word, etc)

anyone???