Can anyone help? can't freeze xref layers in ldd2

Hey people, hopefully someone can help us. We recently upgraded our
computers at work. We have 3 pc's running Land Development Desktop 2i
(Autocad 2000). One computer is used as a server and all the job files
are stored on that pc. The other 2 are connected to the server and all
3 pc's have Ldd2i installed identically on them.
Anyway, our problem is that when anyone is using the SERVER pc AND
using 'xrefs' they can't freeze the layers, although they can turn
them on and off. However, when working on the same job on either of
the other 2 pc's, they can freeze the layers. We tried unsuccessfully
for hours to try to find a setting to correct this situation on the
server pc. My boss suggested that I re-install all the software on the
server, however, I'm fairly certain I set all 3 pc's up exactly the
same. Has anyone experienced this problem, or does anyone know of how
to get the server pc to freeze layers when using xrefs? Any help would
be greatly appreciated. Thank you - John Leonardi

 

One thing to check.... under Options > Open and Save > External References >
Demand Load Xrefs set the option of enabled with copy, and check both other
boxes. That has caused some havoc here with sharing Xrefs across a network.
Steve

 

thanks steve, it was already set up that way though. my boss says it
was working fine up until a couple weeks ago, and then it just didn't
work anymore figures it would happen right after autodesk drops
support for 2000 anyway, thanks for the suggestion