Rick,
First, let me thank you for your answer. I am honored one of the top-of-the-edge vfp programmers in the world takes time to help me with my problems.

You are right about the permissions, and i see it looks for the data in c:\winnt\system32 in the machine running the web service. In this case, i used a workaround: i mapped the drive where the web service into the network, and the app. from there just scans all the time through the data received from the web service, but i feel that soon, the functionality of the web services i'll have to write will need further permissions ...wich brings me to your suggestion. Where do i have to start looking, in order to learn how to make my component a COM+ component?


>The problem most likely is permissions. If you use the default configuration the Web Service COM object will run under the IUSR_ account and if so won't have rights on the network.
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>There a couple of things you can do the easiest of which is most likely to make the component a COM+ component and assign an impersonation to it. You can assign a user account that the COM+ application runs under and that may then have access to the network.
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>+++ Rick ---
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>>Hi All
>>After quite a bit of suffering, i got my web service working. The only problem left is i cannot get it to grab my tables from the network directory where it resides. I tried

>>use f:\mydata\mytable

>>as well as

>>use \\myserver\sys\mydata\mytable

, and in both cases i get the same error message ( cannot find ... ). Of course, if i run these commands from my command window, it works perfectly. What am i missing?
>>
>>TIA,
>>Jaime