>I am getting an error message that the UNCPATH + table name does not exist. I checked my access rights on the Novel server and I can see the table, but when I run the code it errors out on the USE line. It seems like a timing issue because if I map a drive to the directory where the file resides the code runs fine.
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>Has anyone ever dealt with this before?

My data also resides on a Novell server [4.1x], and I use UNC exclusively. The biggest problem I have is this server is in a container than all of our other servers that all users login to. Even though I have granted them rights to the appropriate directory on this application data server, Novell does not walk up the NDS tree to authenticate them on that server.

My work around is first to map a drive to an available drive letter at the beginning of my app before I try to access anything on that server. This forces the authentication., and I can then immediately delete that drive mapping and procede with opening the DBC and tables.

I use NetLib for VFP to do this, but there may be free utility that will do this mapping or an API document in the API library link in the above left frame.