>There was a bug in Fox (probably all versions older than 6 SP5) which prevented it from running off an UNC path (ie \\server\share syntax) if it contained a space. You could have spaces in any local directories, or directories beneath mapped drives, but not in UNCs. This was fixed in SP5. If this is the reason your exe won't run, it's giving you the error "ut.exe - can not find ut.exe" or something like that.
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>If I've guessed the reason well, you have two ways out - upgrade to SP5 or make sure there are no spaces in filenames, share names and directory names. If I have not, it would help if we knew what was the error message.

Dragan,

first of all thanks for the time involved in answering.
i learn something from your reply.
but , pardon for my reiterating. the problem is this :

\ut\serverside.exe has images.dbf with imagepath.field.value="f:\ut\images\camerondiaz.jpg"

clientside.exe form.picture='f:\ut\images\camerondiaz.jpg'
if clientside.exe desktop.shortcut.icon.properties.targetdirectory='f:\ut'
jpg displays on form well where server is map as 'f:\'
if clientside.exe shortcut.icon.properties.targetdirectory='\\server\ut'
jpg do not display.

when thisform.image1.picture=images.dbf.imagepath.field.value

i use dot notation to sort of tie words into hierarchical class objects as what recent programming languages like C#, Java & VB.NET seems to be gearing towards.

appreciate very much your attention and efforts :)
edward from philippines where political elections are violent.