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Thanks. I'm about to upgrade to this to see if it solves the problem. BTW, what commands cause files/directories to lock? Can an update or checkout cause it to happen, or is it only commit, tag, etc? Thanks, Khaled. "Tony Hoyle" <tmh at nothing-on.tv> wrote in message news:3d6f4279.1282778109 at news.cvsnt.org... > On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 10:54:52 -0700, "Khaled Agrama" > <kagrama at hotmail.com> wrote: > > >Also, in what situations would I get "unknown user" as opposed to a real > >user name? > > > It's quite difficult to find out the owner of a file in NT (because > files tend to get owned by your primary group rather than the user) > and when cvs can't use that mechanism it falls back to 'Unknown'. > > 57h will support an alternative locking scheme that always knows who > has the lock (and which machine they are on). > > Tony >