>Well, if your interested in a different view. If your server is a NT4.0 or Novell 5.0 server, you can create a drive mapping on a remote computer over a TCPIP connection to the server. Thus giving the client computer a drive letter that maps directly to your server.

I think your client needs to be NT too - I've never been able to get
TCP 'domain name' connections like this to work from Win95:

USE \\www.west-wind.com\c$\temp\tfile

but it works fine with NT.

Very slow though. There are two issues - connection times which can take
upwards of a minute over a dial up connection and the Internet and actual
data access times over the slow pipe. The latter can be prohibitive if
the files have large indexes as the index images always download to the
client on startup.

In many of these situations it's better to have some sort of server
backend - whether it's SQL Server or even a VFP server backend that
runs the query and only returns the results.

>I have seen this done on NT4.0 workstations and 95 machines. Speed just depends on the type of connection and amount of data transfered.