>>>>>>>>I have a form with a listbox but when run from the exe on the network , >o you use the same data (dbc,dbfs) running locally and on network?

here's something interesting. The form has a dataenvironment and the cursorsource is set to the residence on the local drive. should this make a difference. The same bad results occurred when I copied the form to the r:drive and tried to execute it. So this seems to be more at where the problem lies, not the exe.