One of our servers is a CentOS 4 Linux/Samba filesharing server that serves an access database (via a mapped drive) to a client application running on Windows 98. Ever since we started rsync'ing it to back it up every night, it required samba to be restarted after the backup or the clients had trouble accessing the database. Recently though, the client application is complaining when more than one client attempts to connect to the database. I suspect all of this is related somehow. Is there some sort of lethal interaction between samba, rsync and access databases that I am blissfully ignorant of? I thought rsync only opened a target file for reading (which should only update the atime), which shouldn't affect what's going on in samba-land. ..Chuck.. -- http://www.quantumlinux.com Quantum Linux Laboratories, LLC. ACCELERATING Business with Open Technology "The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit." - FDR 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0