>>>While this has solved the problem of getting access to the Linux filesystem, I am left with a bit of a hack in terms of sending commands back to Linux. My implementation now involves sending one or more commands in a text file, then having a shell script on the Linux side check for the file's existence, execute the script, then delete it. This is managed by a script which in turn is run as a recurring cron job. It works fine, except that there can be up to a minute delay in waiting for cron to cycle. I would like to do something a bit more direct, such as running telnet from VFP, in order to make the command execute at will. I saw nothing in Rick's wwIP tools that would facilitate this.
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>>You could write a small daemon on linux, and use IP from VFP to connect to that daemon and feed it the data - gets rid of samba and your cron job.
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>Sounds good, but I don't now how to do either of those things. Can you point me in the direction of some references so that I can get a better feel for what you are suggesting? If not, that's OK, as this is just an internal app, and I appreciate what you have done already.

Jack,

if you are going to do anything networkish with Linux, unless you know the in's and out's of ARP, DNS resolution, submasking, secondary DNS, etc. already, I would highly recommend The Linux Network, Butzen & Hilton, available at Amazon. It even comes with the software you'll need: not the latest versions, but unless you need features not included, it should be adequate.

Hank