Hi Mark,

Try to run a query against linked server in a user database not a system one.

USE SomeUserDatabase
SELECT * FROM OPENQUERY(Test, 'SELECT * from company') 

>I've checked 'Allow inprocess', saved, closed SSMS, opened, relogin (windows auth.) and get error (see below). Also see my code below.
>
>Script for allowing inprocess
>USE [master]
>GO
>EXEC master.dbo.sp_MSset_oledb_prop N'VFPOLEDB', N'AllowInProcess', 1
>GO
>
>
>Error: (same as original):
>Msg 7399, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
>The OLE DB provider "VFPOLEDB.1" for linked server "Test" reported an error. Access denied.
>Msg 7350, Level 16, State 2, Line 1
>Cannot get the column information from OLE DB provider "VFPOLEDB.1" for linked server "Test".
>
>I did not get the error when I used SQL Server authentication.
>
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