RE: Cannot access file on Network Drive (Windows 2003)

Other than permissions, you might be referencing the folder by the local network mapping drive initial, instead of the actual path: X:\\offsite\db\test.dbf == \\compname-x\offsite\db\test.dbf Generally, I like using the computer name and not a mapping. I find this name-based address through the 'My Network Places' folder. I'm not much of a windows networking person, but this might be the problem. Results may vary, but in windows, I think the mappings are by machine only, as mappings (I assume) are local aliases, and must be set or "shared" among groups of machines to be known. It's probably a permissions thing, though. FWIW -- Jared Farrish Intermediate Web Developer Denton, Tx Abraham Maslow: "If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." $$