Situation: 2 XP computers networked…I’m running dbase IV (DOS data base program). I’d like to have one computer be the server. The program is normally started with a bat. program that changes the directory to the location of the particular data base that I’m running… then you run the program. Example: 1st line of bat. file= CD\dbase\xyz 2nd line of bat. file= dbase.exe Attempting to write a bat. file that access the networked computer fails. Example: 1st line of bat. file= cd\\laptop\c\dbase\xyz 2nd line of bat. file= \\laptop\c\dbase\dbase.exe Any ideas? Can it even be done? Or am I just a mile off base? Thanks!!!

The cd command does not change to drives, just directories on the current drive. If you are using a dos command console in windows 9x to run your batch you could map the drive to a drive letter on the client machine (in explorer) and then access it by the mapped drive letter and then use cd to navigate the directories on it. Unfortunatly that does not work if you are using pure dos unless you can find some other way to map the drive.