Not that I have any disagreement with what you said - but there are several other solutions available to run fox on linux including vmware, win4Lin.

>If you go this route, make sure the Linux admin is aware >that you'll be hosting VFP tables on it. VFP is probably one >of the most stressful apps that can run against an SMB file >system; if anything's misconfigured it'll show up fast as >table opening failures, file corruptions etc. I think some >recent Samba releases have VFP- or FoxPro-specific >settings/tweaks in their READMEs - be sure to read/follow >them. It would also probably be a good idea to configure >Samba to favour reliability over performance.

I have used samba several times as a file server. But I haven't seen any doc's on how best to run samba to support fox. Would you mind and post that info.

Thanks

Johnf