Team 929, Ok I did the whole thing from scratch, It seems like there was a problem with the linking of the table... I believe it happened due to a renaming of the database before or after the split.. The name of the database was respondent so I believe after I split the database with the name being respondent I renamed the database to something else and I believe thats what was preventing the database from opening through the network.. By changing the name after it was split and linked it changed I guess the path for lack of a better word..in any case the database opens now from the users workstations but now I get an invalid argument when it opens... any idea or know what to do with this error?