>I have just finished writing my first multi-user app. I'm unsure how to handle the location of the files. Obviously, I want the dbf files on the server. Should each workstation run it's own copy of the exe? Where should the path statement be placed?
>Obviously, I don't do this for a living. Thanks for any advice.

Personally, I have the data-files on a shared folder on the server (obviously).

As for the EXE, I decided to have that on the server too. The program is called something like MyApp0001.exe. Next time I compile a version, I copy it as MyApp0002.exe. A small loader program (also on the shared folder) determines the latest version and loads it. The users have a shortcut to the loader program. Advantages: 1) I can upgrade the EXE while the users use it. 2) A variation of the loader program allows the user to go back to a previous version - in case the latest version has some serious flaw (in the meantime, of course, the user has to alert me, and I have to fix the flaw).

A variation of the scheme is to copy the EXE to each local workstation - the loader program simply compares if the local version is the last one. Else, the latest version is copied to the local disk. There is at least one loader program like this in the download section.

HTH, Hilmar.