Mac OS X Server Network users and Microsoft Office Documents

Hello. I have a lab with 10.8 clients and 10.7 server. I have problems copying documents to network users' desktops. Here's the scoop:
I'm on my teacher machine. I want to copy word docs (.docx) to the student desktops while they are logged in with ARD. The copy works fine, but when they try to open the documents it is always Read Only. They have to resave the documents as something else in order to use them. Permissions on the documents are read/write for me/staff/everyone on my machine (also a network user account) before I copy them through ARD.
Am I missing something? This issue was around last year when the clients were 10.6 as well.
Thanks for any help.

Hi,
I am trying to do the same exact thing and find that it is best to do this locally (for now). Not only is the network way slower, but it seems to make things worse. For example, things backed up via the client machine are routed from the FTP server/volume mount and different permission wise. When you try to restore them locally, it should work, but the folder had different permissions because they were initially created in root (for me). So, I hope they would come out with something better than what is available now. Thanks!

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