>>>See at #618249.
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>>That applies to the optimisitic locking and cache limit behavior on the server, not the open file handle limit for the executing application.
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>Hi, Ed. Thanks for looking in.
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>Any ideas on this "Serious error" after creating a simple persistent mapping from an XP machine to a Win 98 machine? I will experiment with NET USE when I get back to that site.

I've never seen it, but that really doesn't mean much - you might consider trying to switch over to user-level access control on the Win98 box rather than using share-level access control, but that's a SWAG.