title: MS-Access users can not access linked text file
body: <p>I have a small Access database that is distributed amongst several users.  They are not on my network, so we set them up with a small Access database that links to a txt file that we send them, so they have the ability to run canned queries/reports (that are just a copy of our main database's reports).   </p>
  
  <p>The problem is that if two users try to run reports (there is only one source table - the linked text file), then one of them gets locked out.  We checked the folders and everyone has read/write access to the folder (but again we're just reading the text file, so does it matter if they have write access?).</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone know why this is happening?  Does Access automatically make a link to an external text file exclusive?</p>