> The error code is isc_sys_request so I guess that the server is
> failing to
> get an exclusive lock on something because something else already has
> it. Could it be that one of w2003 friendly little
> "offer-you-can't-refuse"
> operations is going on? (I forget the name of the thing that w2003 has
> instead of SystemRestore).
>

Disk Shadow - turn it off - but it should be doing the same on local
connection
Alan