I have been put in charge of several Access'97 databases. I have never worked with Access'97 to this level. From my previous databasse background, I know that it is important to repair and compact databases. I do this nightly. I got the following error and I am not sure of its importance or how to resolove it. Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

"Record(s) can't be read; no read permission on 'G:\...OutboundCall.mdb'

The G: drive is a network drive. What is confussing me is that there is no .ldb (lock file) present. The repair works fine. The compact fails with ther above error and leaves an intermediate file labelled "db1.mdb' on the drive.

Should I rename and use the intermediate file (db1.mdb)? Or just ignore the issue and it will clear whatever locks it is seeing over the network?

The database seems to work fine. I need guidance!

Lawson