>The problem is equivalence of shares. If I have two shares on my drive on a Win9x or WinNT box, one at the root called D_ROOT, and another of the \Data directory called D_DATA, the following shares are equivalent:
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>D:\Data\MyData.DBF = \\MyServer\D_ROOT\DATA\MyData.DBF
>D:\Data\MyData.DBF = \\MyServer\D_DATA\MyData.DBF
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>Don't ask why there are two shares; the odds are either ACLs or poor planning are behind the insanity. Different users might use different shares for any number of reasons.
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>In order to resolve the equivalence, you need to force the names to resolve in the same way; one way to do this is use the local context. It's a major PITA to code.

I think I'll drop out here. You're much more qualified than I to address this stuff.