>more growing pains...
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>i've "finished" my first project and now i want to upload it to a server. all i want to do is to be able to access these foxpro tables on the server from a group of PCs in a department.
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>first, i copied the project to the server. next, from my PC i created a connection and a remote view. the remote view wizard is only seeing 1 of 4 tables, a free table. when i try to add the other 3 using that connection it says that it cannot obtain field information for them. what is up with that? also, do i need to install the entire VFP application on the server?

There is probably some misunderstanding here. Firstly, you don't need in remote views working with VFP native data. VFP application (executable) should be installed locally and data files (dbc,dbf, etc.) reside on server. Your application code should provide mechanism for looking for and opening data files (LOCFILE,USE etc.).