Is 'database' a share on that machine? You need to connect to a share in order to be able to access drives.
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>Rick
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>Thanks for that - yes I have read your article and tried to use the following code
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>USE \\www.dolphinfactory.com\database\clients.dbf IN 0 SHARED
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>I have rights to this directory and the files is there - what am I missing?
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>Thanks
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>Colin