Hi all - This is an extension from thread 819938. Installed all the patches, suggestions, and tips we received from a number of you. Thanks for all your feedback. Sad to say, the problem does not go away. 1st user in is getting excellent response time. 2nd and subsequent, kinda die on the vine.

Temporatily sovled the problem by putting Win98 on the file server. Response is good all the way around. Did find a thread under google where the same problem was encountered with Access97 and Access XP.

Going to let it simmer for a while until I can get some network pro's in to check things out. Thanks for the help and if anybody has any further ideas, would be glad to try them.

Tom