i've currently got code automatically checking for passwords, and remote tables using cat.tables.append tbl. Our lan team just set up a locking scheme which apparently doesn't like what I'm using (long story short, it makes two unsuccessfull attempts at linking for every successful attempt and them locks out at 6 unsuccessfull attempts. So any database with more than 3 tables locks out users when updating links). Anyway, my managers boss feels that the function is old and there has to be a new way of accomplishing the same task. Does anyone know of a newer way of doing this? Thanks in advance for your help.