Be very careful with using the Internet as a network as performance of a VPN or WAN is going to be **A LOT** slower than a local network in most cases. If you're dealing with large files performance becomes unacceptable very quickly when using FoxPro data.

Another option is to build a service to accept and return data. This can often be much more efficient as only the actual result data travels over the wire not the entire data set. THere are a number of ways to do this - using a Web server among the most prominent and viable. Also using some sort of SQL backend makes for much better performance over a WAN for the same reason.

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>>What's available to allow one of my system's users to work from home with a copy of his VFP executable so that he can read and update the VFP file server machine on the LAN at his office ... just like he does (other than for speed) at the office?
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>>Bob
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>You can setup a VPN network so that he can log into the network while he is at home. Another option is to use remote desktop to his machine at the office and just use the VFP executable on it. Either of these can require some setup work to get gong depending upon their network.