Umm I think your problem is your dos structure..."sta - engineering\last name, first name" is not valid directory names and so will cause the command to start assuming they are switches. The - is the same in a dos command as a / and therefore everything after that is assumed to be switches. Now let me tell you about your paranoia...that Novell server will still be running long after the hard drive on your computer crashes. And if not the backups will have the data.