>>What kind of server is F? The locking is really independent of the OS.
>>Still, each user should have their own resource file. It would be easy
>>to copy the file to the local drive on startup.
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>F: is a Novell 4.11 server. The clients are NT 4.0 using Novell Intranetware client. I opted for the single resource file for update reasons. But I am attempting to code the copy to local method right now. This method work work fine, if I could only think of a way to make sure the user has the latest copy of the foxuser resource file.

Could you not have your users shortcut point to a batch file that copies the file to local and then call fox app that is set up to point to same local path???
Set resource to c:\foxstuff\foxuser