Hell all, I'm using a linuxbox running samba on our local network Everything worked fine and some days before I upgraded to v2.2 Today I've installed a windows application based in Access The data that this app uses reside in one file named low.mdb that is stored centraly in the linux box and all users have access to it through samba. When more than one users started working a lot of problems came up. Every now and then Access either complained about low.mdb been locked for exclussive usage by another user or it opened the data but in read only mode. When the same low.mdb was moved to a PC running win98 everything worked normal. This is the first time that I use samba to share a file that is opened in read - write mode from a lot of users simultaneously and I assume it has something to do with locking so I searched the samba documentation for this word and came up with a couple of relative options. These seem to be OK when left in their default setting and that's exactly the case with my smbconf which is extremely light (as few options as can be I hope). Any ideas how to solve this problem? System Info: RedHat 7.0 kernel 2.2.19 samba 2.2.0 windows 98SE Clients Access 97 and the samba conf: workgroup = LOCALENLOGIC server string = Samba %v Server encrypt passwords = Yes username map = /etc/samba/smbusers log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max disk size = 3000000000 max log size = 1000 name resolve order = lmhosts host bcast wins socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=1024 SO_RCVBUF=4096 load printers = No #for greek support character set = ISO8859-7 client code page = 737 local master = No dns proxy = No remote announce = 192.168.0.255 guest account = pavlos hosts allow = 192.168.0. printing = lprng [homes] comment = Home Directories writeable = Yes browseable = No [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba printable = Yes browseable = No [company] path = /home/share browseable = Yes writeable = Yes force group = enlogic create mask = 0770 force create mode = 0770 directory mask = 0770 force directory mode = 0770 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I love having the feeling of being in control while i have the sensation of speed The surfer of life ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~