Thanks for the suggestions John. I'm not really having any problems with a VFP app, and ODBC isn't really a player. Your suggestion did give me the idea to look in some of our older projects and make sure there are no stray paths in there though.

Hey, Oxford! I lived in Banbury for four years. Oxford was my favorite city. Is there still a wine bar there called "The Crypt?" I used to eat some of the best steaks ever there. I can't remember the address. It was next to a big Virgin Records store, in an old bomb shelter/wine cellar.

M.

>Marty
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>We saw heavy locking under Novell with an app that worked perfectly everywhere else. We found 2 issues: First, any "paths" set in any application to servers that no longer exist, can cause a mighty Novell "network walk" that may never finish, especially if you have a WAN. WARNING this can be caused by tables in a datasession pointing to a location that is no longer accessible. And Word documents created using a template in a location that is no longer accessible, can also do it.
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>So check your paths!
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>Second, SQL Server 6.5 or earlier using the wrong ODBC Version, can lock firm.
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>What versions of Novell and (if applicable) ODBC are you using?
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>Regards
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>JR