>Our application runs a 27MG .exe that resides locally on the workstation. However, it appears that the clients are still trying to access the VFP500.dll on the network. I would assume that if the .exe is ran locally, then the .dll should also be run locally? So what's the story? Is there a path to the .dll somewhere, maybe an environmental variable or a registry key?

Shawn, is this EXE run by any chance with -Dfile parameter which specifies the location of runtime .DLL file?