Right, I need to wash my glasses. The syntax Stan uses, is the one for Config.fpw.

>From the command window you need to do SET RESOURCE TO D:\FoxUser.dbf. The way you're doing it assigns a string value to the variable "Resource"
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>>I am attempting (without success) to do a RESOURCE='D:\FoxUser.dbf' from the VFP command window. In Windows 7, the Properties dialog shows that I have Modify, Read & execute, List folder contents, Read, Write permissions for the D: drive (but not Full control or Special permissions).
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>>A FoxUser table is not being created but there is no error message when I execute the command.
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>>Can you think of any reason why this would be failing?
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>>Thanks,
>>Stan