Thank you all for the input... Everyone except for Steve "change everyone's name to russp" Crossman. ;-) I want to deploy this as a method for about 300 employees with various levels of computer skills so I hope to create a small drag and drop utility that you can drag a folder or file from a server to (hope drag and drop works with folders too - haven't looked into that yet) and it will either create an AFP link icon on the desktop or stick the AFP link in the clipboard ready to pasted in-line into the text of an email. I'm sure I'll be back with more questions. Thanks russp