On Tue, 25 May 2010 09:47 -0500, "Stephen Russell" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was amazed that when the odbc knows it is calling E:\shipping.dbc > it can find the shiptrans table in f:\sbtpro\custom\ but same dbc > referenced in an odbc as g:\shipping cannot work the backlink for the > same view of the table. > > #FAIL > > The DBC was acting as just a pointer. Where I put it was fine. > Changing the path to it screwed the pooch! Sorry dude but that is a > load of crap from a deployment perspective. 100% f'ed that one M$ Again, using UNC paths instead of drive letters would have helped somewhat ... this is maybe one of those situations when using something other than VFP for the database (i.e. something with built-in security) would have been a better idea in hindsight. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
