Hi George,

Same to you. Good to hear from you, been a while. I still monitor VFP forum messages but haven't been very active since we pretty much just do .NET dev now.

Good point. My machine name is "DAD" which is what I named it, which shows up as "DAD (LOCAL)" in the specification lists. But I didn't think this had anything to do with the fact that it was still the "(local)" or "(localhost)" machine. I must be missing something on this point. I've tried every permutation of local/localhost and it won't work.

I can live with it if I have to but I would like to understand the mechanism ...

Bill

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>Hi and Merry Christmas to you and your's.
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>This is just a guess, but I've found that if the machine name isn't properly indicated, then all bets are off.
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>For example, I had (on my old box) a local addition of SQL server. For various reasons, it got re-named from (local) to 99999-SHAW/GEORGE (don't ask).
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>Perhaps that's the problem.