>Just remembered that yesterday someone mentioned that NT does some delayed writes when only one workstation opens a table, which then doesn't matter if it's open shared or not - internally, it's held exclusive until closed or until opened once more by another workstation. Maybe VFP used a similar technique or just extended this behavior?


Bruce, I think Dragan is on the right (write?) track here. NT and Netware can do a thing called "Opportunistic Buffering" when files are open by only one user. So this problem could be completely outside of FoxPro. In NT this option can be turned off at both the client and the server.

Peter Robinson