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You should also use a TSession component when working with multi user 
paradox systems.

To clear the error search for *.lck and delete.
You might want to consider MySQL as a decent alternative! It is free and is 
very robust.
There are all sorts of bugs in the BDE that I have spent many hours of 
discussions with top bods at correll in Ireland about and proving, however 
borland were unwiling to correct the problems and were completely unhelpful 
about.

Check out www.mysql.com using ADO and the windows gui tools it is very eay 
to install and use and will handle multi user databases very  very 
efficiently.

Regards

James West

"Bruce Roberts" <ber@bounceitattcanada.xnet> wrote in message 
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> "jo" <fitgirl99@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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>> 'directory controlled by other .net file'
>> file of dir does not exist
>> file c:\ pdoxusers.net..
>> dir c:\
>> file y:\....pdoxusers.lck
>>
>> It is running on win98 workstations with a win2000 server (i think) I am
>> dealing with the db using the bde SQL and Table components with actual
>> database names ie 'company.db'
>>
>> Is this because i havent set an alias?
>
> The BDE is incorrectly configured on the workstations. Somewhere at the
> Borland web site there is a document that describes how this should be 
> done.
> (IIRC you need to set the NetFileDir property to point to the same place
> (textually & actually) on each station.) Also I've found on Win98 stations
> that the registry key HKLM System CurrentControlSet Services VxD VREDIR
> DiscardCacheOnOpen has to be set to 1 and Opportunistic locking turned off
> on the server.
>
>