>Sorry, I didn't phrase that response very well.
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>Your first response hit the nail on the head. When I set exclusive off, everything worked properly.
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>Now that exclusive is off and the data is being shared, I was asking your opinion of what the best way was to buffer the data.

If you're new to multi-user concepts, I'd review Chapter 17 in the VFP6 documentation. You may not need buffering at all (buffering = 1, no buffering, which is the default). Before discussing this further you need to understand your own typical multi-user data access scenario, what types of INSERTs/UPDATEs/DELETEs you expect, what type of locking you want to implement, whether you want to use TRANSACTIONs, etc.

Update - clicking on the auto-link of the word "buffering" in the message above takes you to a discussion of it, by John Koziol of Microsoft. Or, if the auto-link doesn't work:

http://www.levelextreme.com/VisualFoxPro/Articles/442.asp