Hmmm ... well, if that's the case, is it only true in a Novell situation or in an ODBC sitation? Because I tried it on my Win98 network and had no problem at all accessing the database directly thru Foxpro across the network with read-only access. I haven't used ODBC in awhile and don't have it set up on my computer.


>FoxPro must have read-write rights to open a table. Don't ask me why. I remember this from my Novell days when we had to give Read, Write and Modify Flag rights in order for it to work.
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>HTH.
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>>I'm not sure if this question belongs in this cateogory, but oh well ... it's close enough. < g >
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>>My clients are on a Novell Netware network. They are accessing a FoxPro database thru an ODBC connection for reporting (I believe they're doing some stuff with Excel, not sure exactly though at this point and I don't think it matters). Anyway, when they had network access rights set up for read-write to the network drive, they had no problems whatsoever accessing the Foxpro database thru ODBC. They set up another group with read-only access and cannot access the Foxpro database in this situation. They get an error that the .DCT memo file is missing or invalid.
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>>Does anybody know if this is a Netware problem or an ODBC problem? They didn't know what version their ODBC driver was, but they said they had updated it only a few months ago.
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>>I can get more info from them if necessary. It's not something I've been working on for them, so I don't know all the particulars.
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>>TIA,
>>Bonnie