We have a program written in VB6. We run the executable vfpoledb.exe to replace or run instead of the jet driver. We have had a couple of our customers that have tried running this executable on their local PC and they are getting a message: "The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable."
Click OK to try again, or enter an alternate path to a folder containing the installation package 'Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Visual FoxPro,msi' in the box below.
The "Use Source" box is pointing to C:\Documents and setting\User Profile\Local etc. The VB program is located on C:\Program Files\ProgramName.
We place the Vfpoledb.exe in the C:\Program Files\ProgramName directory. We tried having the client change the path from the user profile to C:\Program Files\ProgramName and they still get the message as noted above. Others have ran this same executable with no problem.
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It sounds like at some point the vfpoledb.dll component was registered pointing at a network drive.
I would login as an administrator, delete all references to it in the registry, delete all instances of the component itself on the local drive and install it again running the installtion package Carl gave you a link to. While the default location is now C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\Ole DB I have found some instances where third party programs that use it are only happy if it and the vfp runtime are in system32. Your problem does not sound related but you never know.
Carl and Tmedley,
Thanks for the info. I am waiting to hear back from the client on whether these suggestions work or not. It might take a day or two to hear back from them. So I appreciate you being patient. I will let you know what i find out soon.
Just so you both know i have two clients with the same problem in different parts of the US and they are both running on XP so we don't have issues with Vista.
I apologize for the delay in awarding the points. It took time for my client to find the time to try these possible solutions. It does appear that the end result was that the client had to delete all references in the registry and then run the vfpoledb.exe again as administrator. The client did try running the executable locally first but to no avail, and ended up deleting references in the reigstry. Therefore I am awarding tmedley with 400 points for the closest solution and also 100 points for giving us a place to start.
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by: CarlWarnerPosted on 2007-12-26 at 14:46:32ID: 20531327
My first inclination was to tell you to check that one PC to see whether it has the latest MS Installer version on it. But the messages you are conveying seem to head another direction.
I'm sure you got that .exe from here (there will be an updated version in the next few months to match VFP9 SP2):
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Visual FoxPro 9.0
http://www.microsoft.com/d
Are those customers trying to run that .exe off of a server location OR are they running it locally? A local copy may solve that problem as MS tries to protect us from ourselves by putting weird checks into running odd things from a server location. Even IE7 has forced some of us to put our VFP apps in a trusted intranet zone when run from a server as MS throws at us an unknown publisher message.