Hi Scott,
 SD> You should be able to use a full UNC path when you specify the IPC
 SD> path.  Will that not permit you to run without the temporary user?
Yes, it would, if Max was the only program accessing the IPC directory. 
However, I am using some third party utilities to enhance what Max does with 
the IPC directory, and they will not use UNC paths. As I said before, I'd 
rather have Max use an IPC directory on the NT Server, not on a Win95 
workstation. However, since it is only Max that is having this problem, I 
will see what it does with a UNC path to the IPC directory on the NT Server, 
and the third party utilities can get to it via drive mappings.
 SD> I have NT Workstation but I do not have any NTFS drives.  Are you
 SD> sure that it has to do with NTFS (and not NT itself)?  Or NT Server
 SD> versus Workstation?
I can't test NT Server vs. Workstation. However, I did try putting the IPC 
directory on an FAT partition on the NT Server. Same problem. So, it looks 
like it is not the partition type itself, but rather that it is NT Server. 
(I'm guessing here.) The NT Server I am using is pretty basic. NT 4.0 with 
service pack 3 installed. Just basic services installed, nothing fancy or 
foreign.
Thanks for the continuing reponses.
...jim
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