>I've recently started having problems on XP with mapped network drives. The user logs on fine and the mapped drive shows up fine in 'My Computer'. But when the user launches the application it tells them the database is not found on the mapped drive. If you double click the mapped drive and relaunch the application then everything is fine. But the user must double click on the mapped drive in My Computer or the VFP application does not see it. Any ideas on how to get around this problem? It seems almost a daily occurance now.
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>Greg

Greg,

Use UNC pathing instead of drive mappings. This will prevent you from forcing everyone to map specific drive letters to certain servers and will not let drive mapping losses cause problems. So, if:

N: is mapped to \\NTDev\D

and your database is opened like this:

OPEN DATABASE N:\Dev\Data\Database.dbc

You could simply change it to this:

OPEN DATABASE \\NTDev\D\Dev\Data\Database.dbc

HTH,
Chad