Greetings all, I'm trying to figure out a way to "force" samba to lock a file even though the client application hasn't asked for a lock. Here's my situation: I have a series of web pages stored on a samba server that are updated fairly frequently by 3 or 4 staff members via a mapped drive letter. MS Front Page Express (I know, not the best, but it's all I have at the moment.) doesn't request a DENY_ALL exclusive lock, so the potential is there for more than 1 staff member to be working on the same page at the same time, which obviously means someone is going to lose their work, probably without realizing it. :-( Is there a way for force samba to use DENY_ALL for any file that's open for a given share even if the client doesn't request the lock or some other way around my problem? Does the full version of Front Page request locks? If so, maybe I need to purchase it or another html editor that does. Any help is most appreciated. Eric Sisler esisler@ares.csd.net