Hello samba, Strange problem. We've got a program based on Borland Paradox Engine. The program uses the same database shared on network drive. Seems like shared access to the same database files uses the lock files like PDXUSERS.LCK and others. When the databases were placed on Novell Netware drive, all was OK for serveral years. But when I placed it onto Samba server, the program tends to show red error boxes with error messages sometimes telling that something is blocked etc. what it can be???? With best wishes, Oles' Hnatkevych, http://gnut.kiev.ua, gnut@fc.kiev.ua Finance & Credit Banking Corporation, Kyiv, Ukraine. Industrialnaya str. 27 +380 44 2417190 Artema str. 60, +380 44 4906877