>Hello All, yes I know this is an old one ! but ! my version has a different slant. Scenario: All Fox data resides on a Novell server, data is accessed by DOS & Windows applications from workstations running XP or Win2K, if a Windows ( run from a XP workstation ) app has already opened a table, a DOS app attempting to open the same table fails with the dreaded error message. This also happens the other way round. It does not happen if both clients are running XP. Using Novell remote console shows that the files are not opened exclusive neither are they locked, if anyone has any info I would appreciate it

Peter, I suspect that what is happening is that when a version of foxpro opens the table it checks the header and probably makes a change to some byte specific to that version of foxpro in the table or memo file header.

When the next app, of a different version, tries to open the file it also wants to make a similar change specific to its version but cannot if the file has already been opened by another app.

If you open the file with another app of the same version no change is required and all is fine, hence if both clients are the same version of foxpro there is no problem.