>have the same drive mapping to access the data, or do I use UNC to >guarantee that everyone is pointing to the same data. The problem with UNC >is it permanently fixes the design time location of your data. >Anyway, I am working with a UNC absolute path to my data at the moment, >I'll let you know if I find out I've made the wrong decision. UNC has to be hardcoded into your BeforeOpenTables, right? So, why not keep the UNCs in a couple of public variables (say, path part only, or complete filename) which can be initialized some other way in some config file (setup.dbf, app.ini, registry, whatever) at setup time. Then use these variables to supply the UNC. It's then just a matter of these vars having different values for development and production environments.