>Ocassionaly, when I try to delete a file from our Netware 5.x file
>server, I get the message "Cannot delete : access is denied"
>"Make sure the disk is not write protect or full". This disk is
>neither. This happens ocassionaly. Perhaps 10% of the time. Sometimes
>if I try to delete the file again 2 or 3 times, I finally can.
>Otherwise, if I wait for a few hours I can delete the file. Nobody
>else has the files open.

Any chance a backup device (either physical or software) could be using the file?

The Anonymous Bureaucrat,
and frankly, quite content not to be
a member of either major US political party.