I have all my Novell stuff finally moved over to the samba server and most all of it is working. I have a problem with an act database though. Whenever I try to open it windows 2000 reports that it is locked by another user. I check the status and the files are not open at all so it should not be a locking issue. Other files (spreadsheets, docs etc..) all open fine. The system is RH7.3 with Samba 2.2.5 I have a bunch of engineers sharing solidworks files and they are having no problems, only act it appears. Any help will be appreciated. Tony McGrew www.multicam.com