>Hi,
>does anybody know how to prevent users from openning VFP tables.
>Some of my users have a VFP installed on their PC and they can access all VFP free tables in my data folder. Do you know any effective way how to stop it?
>TIA.

Of course one old trick is to use a $ directory to hide it, and hardcode the path in (or pass path as parameter, etc). Change it periodically to keep them fooled. Not perfect, but it can help fool an average user pretty well.