Thanks for the detailed response! I'll digest it gradually and probably ask you more questions! The issue that's easiest to discuss is about the dictation software breaking the sound files into chunks. That's so that they're smaller than the email server's allowance for attachments. If a 3 minute mp3 is about 3 Mbytes, and a dictation goes on for 10 minutes, it may be too big to send to our transcriptionist as an email attachment. That's why I was wondering about creating an ftp server on our LAN. Jim Robertson --