OT: File compatibility issues with LAN drive

A puzzler: When trying to unzip files on my LAN drive I get the error message "Not a ZIP File". When clicking an *.XLS file on the LAN drive I get the Windows error "Not a valid Win32 application". Well, I know it's not an application. Harumph. Grumble.

Everything else works. Also when I copy those files over to a local PC it's ok. The drive is a Western Digital MyBook and AFAIK the little PC in this one runs Linux. Did anyone else have that happen with a Linux file server? Any fixes? It's not a huge problem at all, just curious.

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Regards, Joerg

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