Exactly. SMB is/was a band aid for the sore of lower network access speed.
Keeping RO data on the server is not using technology at best practice.

>What Thomas said was that when the EXE holds dbf's, it shouldn't be loaded over the network for performance reasons. He then went on to add that the way to handle this was to have a small loader program that brought the new exe to the desktop when the user logged on. Just practical advice to make that particular choice runs smoothly. These are things known by those who do these kinds of things (we hit SQL Server but certain DBF's that are readonly are in the EXE, and we've used a small loader to handle updating of the EXE and other related files for at least 15 years).
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>>>>I don't understand the relevance of what you are saying to the question either. OTOH what caveat there might be using a dbf in an exe (knowing it is a readonly one)?
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>>I think it's OK- but Hank is a seasoned campaigner so i hope he can clarify if he means there are gotchas...