I took a lighting strike here monday nite on my novell server. I replaced that machine with suse linux 8.0 running samba. I have a foxpro database based account system that seems to work fine from the samba server, have disabled oplocks on the share for this. also on the same share I have some users that share some access an excel files that only one preson can get in the access files at a time, others that need to get in an just look at some info from the files can not open them of someone has them open for editing. gives error of can not lock file. is there a known fix for me to put something in the smb.conf file to fix this problem. I need the users to be able to view some tables to look up some info they need for other things from this files. thanks. I know in the hurry to get the new server up to replace old one I might have misses something. I can post smb.conf if need be. jack malone Network Administrator EAST TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND dba HORIZON INDUSTRIES 903-595-3444 http://www.horizonind.com