At 09:32 AM 7/04/2011, jlane_campbell wrote:

>Sorry, by "Named Offer" I was referring to named shares ... i.e. when someone in Windows shares out a folder with a given share name. If I'm reading your post, you're saying shares don't work.

Yep - I thought I made that more than clear.

>What's weirding us out is -- when we use the formatting I mentioned: "\\Server\\ShareName\<Rest of Path (if any)\<FileName>.FDB", sometimes it works, and sometimes it throws the error. I'm searching for the reason why...

It doesn't work and it is not meant to work. Why not read some documentation?

>Our alternative is to prevent users from selecting named shares, only drives.

No, that is not your alternative, it is your only choice.

>We can do that, but were hoping to offer more flexibility...

Give a man enough rope and he will find a way to hang himself. If you want a file-served data store, use Access or MySQL.



HB