cvslockd is working: bash-3.00$ telnet localhost 8999 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. CVSLock 2.2 Ready ^] telnet> quit Connection to localhost closed. I'm happy to share what I've done with SQLServer from Solaris. Don't know why you thought otherwise. I'll try the 32-bit cvsnt package next. Thanks, Tom