>Just an idea: if Samba allows you to talk across the OS boundary, could you put your tables on a Windows location and use them from there, hoping it would give you decent record locking?

Dragan,

Interesting question. I don't think Samba allows unix to talk to windows, but allows windows to talk to unix if that makes sense. With it, Windows will recoginzed a drive mapped to the unix box, but I haven't tried to get unix to recoginze a drive on NT. I might have to give it a try...

Rob