>I am attempting to run my VFP application (as an EXE file) from a remote site using universal naming convention instead of a mapped drive. (Note the application works perfectly with a mapped drive).
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>I make no references to paths in the program except that I open all my table and databases using a relative path name. Example:
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>use database\atable.dbf shared in 0
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>My CONFIG.FPW file has no path names hard coded for table access.
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>I get the following error when running the EXE:
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>Unable to access \:\\FS_RENAL2\USER1\APPS\DB\MAIN\DATABASE\PATDB.DBC
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>This looks fine except for the "\:" at the start. How did that get there? Should that be there? What is causing it?

Sorry folks the error message is acutally

"\:\\FS_RENAL2\USER1\APPS\DB\MAIN\DATABASE\PATDB.DBC does not exist."