>>>>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.
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>Jack,
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>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.
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>Hank

Thank you - I'll order it.