>I understand what your saying, but the NT box is dedicated to this. It's sole purpose is to be a central repository for disparate data. DCOM is another route that may work allowing us to message the box so to speak to perform various tasks. Do you know any good articles on creating DCOM components?

William...

I think you can do what you want... however, there is no NEED to run it as a service.

Here are a few articles you might want to look at...

AT www.west-wind.com...
"Build HTTP Client/Server Aps"
"Internet Enabling VFP Aps"

I know the titles don't sound like what you want.... but the are both related to setting up remote processing for your ap. The second has a whole section of COM/DCOM.

Then March 1999 FoxTalk... "Remote OLE Autmatino in the Real World", this is a combination Case Study/HowTo which describes pretty much what you want to do... off load a large process to a high power server that everyone shares.

HTH,
BOb