hello Daniel,

> Also, I thought the original question was how
> to extract from an UNC the server name and the
> true path name on the server. I know it is not
> the best way to perform a setup of an application,
> because I wouldn't recommend it either

I am interested to know what should be the best way, always talking of
peer to peer.

Suppose that I have already installed the application and the database
on a machine which name is MACHINE_A and now I'm going to install on
another machine on the peer to peer network named MACHINE_B.

Supposing that the database path on MACHINE_A is:

MACHINE_A:C:\Program Files\MyApp\Database

how can the installer on MACHINE_B detect it as an absolute path?

Or is there another clean way to perform an installation like this,
where the database file is on one machine only?

Thank you
Salvatore