Thanks Sergey, but this is really just an exercise for me to get my feet wet. I will probably experiment with launching RDC which will call a vfp exe on the server side, deposit data into the local drive (which is accessible through RDC) and have a local vfp app "pick up" the data locally.
Ed
>I am using Web Services for that, but in this case you have to change your program...
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>>Hi all,
>>Is there an easy way to run a local copy of vfp to access data on a Win2003 server using Remote Desktop Connection (terminal services) rather than installing vfp on the server end?
>>My quest is to have a vfp program access data on a local lan but also grab some data (via odbc) on a remote lan. The plan is to make this pretty automatic, rather than having someone have to push this button, that button,etc.
>>Can anyone point me in the right direction, please?
>>Thanks,
>>Ed