I want to seach the list archives for an aswer to fix a locking pforblem for access database files locking issue. I know I saw an url in the past for this for a search on google, for some reason that messaged did not get put in my saved file for later reference. Can anyone tell me where this archive list if at that I can do a search on. thanks. Had a lighting strike last week that took out my old novell server an I now have replaced it with a suse server running samba, all is working fine except the access an excel files not being able to be open by more then one person. I need multiple people to be able to open the access files for readonly to look at table data. thanks. P S i"m willing to search the list if I can find the archives. jack malone jmalone@horizonind.com Horizon Industries