>>>I know I have read in the FoxPro help files that you should not use UNC paths. This was a while ago. Does anyone know if this still applies to VFP 9?
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>>>We now have to use them in one case where our small VFP 9 .EXE is run as a background service. Because it is starting as a service (which starts under a new user) there is no existing net work path mapping. We had to use UNC paths to the data on the network. It seems to run fine and very fast.
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>>As an addition to what Dragan said, if you need to make a directory it doesn't work if it's just a single folder but works for multiple levels.
>>Cetin
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>Cetin,
>I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean that you have to give the entire UNC path with the MD command?

Not only entire path, directory need to be multilevel. ie:

md \\servername\myFolder

fails.

md \\servername\myFolder\mySubfolder

succeeds creating both myFolder and myFolder\mySubfolder.
Cetin