>Hi all,
>
>Any possible reasons why the following happens:
>I successfully open a database exclusively from one workstation. The database
>is sitting on a NT4.0 server. And I can open the same database from another
>workstation in shared mode? This is very strange!
>
>Thanks.
>Kam.

This is just a previous experience guess, but I had the same thing happen to me and found out that the workstation had a copy of the database somewhere in its path. So when I would open it exclusive the workstation was opening a copy. Just my two cents on path issues.