I am running Samba on Solaris 2.6 and am connecting to it from Windows NT4.0. Whilst running some Access software the database is initially accessed without problem but part way through processing I get the report that the database file cannot be accessed since it is exclusively opened by another user. I cannot then read the database at all until I log out of Windows then back in. All is then well for a while. The number of times which I can access the database before I get the error message again seems to be decreasing. There is no problem with the software when the database is on a local drive. Nor is there if the database is put on to an IRIX machine with Samba. Any comments please? ---------------------- Elizabeth Taylor University Department of Cardiovascular Medicine Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics Roosevelt Drive Headington Oxford OX3 7BN phone : +44 1865 287679 *** new FAX : +44 1865 287501 email : elizabeth.taylor@well.ox.ac.uk