>>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?
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>Sorry folks the error message is acutally
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>"\:\\FS_RENAL2\USER1\APPS\DB\MAIN\DATABASE\PATDB.DBC does not exist."
Evan,
I think it's not dbf but backlink info causing error. This works quite well :

mfname = "\\poseidon\d$\goruntu\data\images"
use (mfname)
browse
? dbf()
* "\\poseidon\d$\goruntu\data\images" prints correctly

Might it be in original design DBC was in root of where DBF reside ?
Cetin