HI We are running a five server farm with a Access datastore. At the moment all the servers connect to the first server for the datastore. It seems it's better to have each server connecting direct to the datastore server, is this correct? i'n run "dscheck" in any server and recieve error, for what??????? that the first server in the farm is connecting to our SQL datastore and the other six servers are connecting through the first one. If I run dscheck on any server in farm except for the first one I receive the error: Unable to initialize Data Store connection. This server must have a direct connection to the data store. Application terminated. (Result: 0x80000001) dscheck runs fine from server 1. Thanks Jhon Jairo Gil BackOffice _________________________________________________________________ Discover the new Windows Vista http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE