Can you log into the machine as the user who is running the web (the iusr account, if its running as an annonymous user) and go to the folder and create, edit and save a text file there. This should rule out the read only problem on the folder. What if you set the account to run under the local admin account?

Just some thoughts.

Jon

>actually it does but every time i go into the folder and uncheck read only it looks ok but then i close the properties window and bring it up again and the read only option is checked again. I have checked the dbf, dbc and associated files and they look ok.
>Slán
>~M
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>>Hi Mark,
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>>Does the folder have the read only attribute set?
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>>>hi all,
>>>i have installed a demo web development on a customers machine. I had a few problems initially but i thought i got it working. first i installed iis on his machine, its an xp machine but i develop in 2k. then i copied over my directory structure with the website, its very basic at the moment. the website viewed fine, its asp. when i tried to view data from a dbf i got an error about ie not being able to view the database so i installed a newer version, but not the newest - think it is from VFP7, of the odbc driver and again that solved that problem. then i tried running some code that i have in a dll and it wouldn't update a table, it said that it couldn't update a read only cursor. the code is basic, use table1 alias table1 and then replace field with variable. i went over board with the user rights in windows giving full rights to both iusr and iwam just in case and in inetmgr i also gave the folder execute permissions but still nothing. can anyone point me in the right direction.
>>>Slán
>>>~M