>>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?
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>Dragan,
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>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...

I think it should work this way even without Samba, as I have seen on my daughter's machine. She's installed several versions of Linux and FreeBSD, and never had problems adding Windows partitions (32bit FAT, didn't have NTFS on that disk) to her filesystem.