Awesome. Thanks for the info. I am trying to find any kind of reference material concerning Oracle and VFP. Sheesh, didn't think it was going to be so difficult moving from SQL Server <g>

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>You can do this on Oracle as well.
>Read the Oracle manual about "External Authentification".
>Briefly from memory you set the following parameters in the initORCL.ini
>file:
>
>remote_os_authent=true
>os_authent_prefix=""
>
>The create users using....
>create user xxx identified externally;
>
>Then the OS takes over to make the connection...
>The user connects with "/ @orcl"
>
>The manual has a huge section on this and can be found online at
>http:\\technet.oracle.com
>
>
>Cheers