I have looked in the archives and seen several posts relating to the BDE and samba but none of the answers seem to help. Basically the issue is interoperability with the BDE and SAMBA. I have tried basically all of the locking settings within the share and it seems that setting locking=no/false and oplocks=yes/true is the only way to get the database to share. The problem is none of the record locking features of the BDE works. The netdir in the BDE is correct (set by app), and I am pullling out my hair trying to figure it out. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Chris Kim cdkim@cfxc.com