Sergey
Yes i am running VFP9 as Administrator and i tried Naomi's suggestion
Thank you for your help - Google certainly has plenty of references to 0x8008005: but i could not pin it down
Regards

>It sound as permissions issue. Did you try to run as administrator?
>
>>Sergey
>>the error message is
>>ole error 0x8008005: Server Execution Failed
>>regards
>>