ok I seem to have got a little further with the deploy thing past the permissions problem I am now facing another problem which is

Cannot deploy the report because the shared data source '/Data Sources/MyFirstREP' that the report references does not exist on the report server.

C:\Users\alan\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\projects\MyFIrstReport\MyFIrstReport\bin\Debug\Report1.rdl

ohhh my head im off to bed, had enough for today

thanks

Alan