>>With NT Workstations v4.0, Service Pack 1 that are configured
>>to have read-only rights to the root of C, even though the config.fpw
>>files are configured to write temporary files to C:\TEMP, an
>>error
>>"Cannot initialize environment"
>>pops up when trying to start our application.
>>When the rights for the root of C are changed to not just be read
>>only, the application starts fine.
>>We need to have these NT stations with read-only rights to the
>>root of C.
>>Any thoughts?
>
>RESOURCE=OFF in CONFIG.FPW, or pointed elsewhere where they do have rights, or put a FOXUSER.DBF and FPT there, flagged as read-only.

This will not solve the problem. The temp files could be pointed to a network drive, but it will slow down the application.