Our colleague may be seeing this: HTTP Web Server: IBM Notes Exception - This database is currently in use by another person or process, and cannot be accessed at this time.  In order to share a Notes database, it must be accessed via a Domino Server by all users of the database. Other processes can be in contention such as DAOS and clrepl, HTTP and dbmt, etc. Another possibility is that the database is transactionally logged, and there are errors like the following: LkMgr BEGIN Long Held Lock Dump and rm_lkmgr_cpp:2029.