<snip>Another possibility would be for your program try more than once. I have the impression - from my understanding of TCP, and observations with Web browsers - that it may sometimes not be possible to start a TCP session (start a connection) on the first try. But once a connection is established, it is very difficult to interrupt it (with intermittent errors), due to the built-in recovery mechanisms in TCP.

That is what I've been thinking after reading about this kind of problem on the Fox Wiki. Do you think this kind of code would work:

  *------------------------------------------------------  
  function CursorFill( tlUseSchema, tlNoData, tcOptions)
  *------------------------------------------------------  

    local llopened, liattempt, limaxattempts
    llopened = .f.
    liattempt = 0
    limaxattempts = 15
    
    for liattempt = 1 to m.limaxattempts
      if not m.llopened
        llopened = dodefault( m.tlUseSchema, m.tlNoData, m.tcOptions)
      endif
      if m.llopened
        exit
      endif
      wait timeout 1
    endfor
    
    return m.llopened 

My tables are being accessed with cursor adapters. The thing I can't quite remember is what happens if you do a "wait" in a com object ... I kinda recall that being "bad"

PS: Keep forgetting what tag to use to make code look like code on UT. Grr.