Oscar,

My bet would be that someone forgot to mark the EXE as Read Only.

Best,

DD

>I recently met a customer which runs a VFP application from a Server drive. This is that each of the users (about 5) runs the same .EXE located at a mapped drive from his/her computer.
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> The only problem here is that when an application starts, VFP sends the message "File access denied" and the application continues apparently with no further problems.
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> Since I've never used this stile of running a program, but rather having each user keep a copy of the .EXE on his/her computer, I'm guessing that this problem lies on the FoxUser.DBF file being shared for many users at the same time.
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> I'd appreciate any information regarding this matter in order to stop the error message from popping up on the screen.
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> Are there any Advantages/Disadvantages on running an application by many users at the same time against the application runing on each users PC?
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> Thanks for any comments about this.
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> Oscar Corte