>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.

My understanding is that for both VMWare and Win4Lin you still need a copy of Windows i.e. your app still runs in Windows, which in turn is hosted on Linux via one of these products.

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>>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.
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>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.

I'm not an expert at this. I was involved a while back with a client running an FPD app with the data files on Samba (at the time on either NetBSD or OpenBSD IIRC). I recall finding notes in the READMEs that helped get that setup running reliably but I don't know where they are now.

Googling "Samba Foxpro" gets lots of hits e.g. http://www.drouillard.ca/Tips&Tricks/Samba/Oplocks.htm