Network - Macintosh hd vs mac name \public + xls read only problem

hi,
new to mac world...
i've 2 mac osx 10.5, whenever i tried to access them by network/Macintosh hd i have troubles opening excel/pdf files("The file may be read-only or you may trying to access a read-only location or the server the document is stored on may be not responding"), i can copy the files to my desktop and open them without problems.
if i copy the files to the public folder i can open them from the network without problems
in both accesses i'm using the same user that as administrative access.
so what is the difference since i'm using a root account on both times
regards

any hints?

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