>First, I don't know much about this at all (I just created my first DSN last week :) so....
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>Can't you create the dsn and use a fixed IP and path to point to the data.
>ex:
>\\255.255.255.255\\SomeFolder\SomeData.dbc
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>I just tried and I can point to a VFP .dbc on my LAN that way. If your ISP gives you a fixed IP and you know the path I would think that would work. You don't need a drive letter, I use the unc on my lan and it's seems to work fine (\\ServerName\Folder\Data.dbc)
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>Again, I know little about it so I could be completely offbase.
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Not completely ;-) The other thing required for this to work is that you have rights to access those folders/files. That's why I mentioned that his ISP would need to give him an NT account and shared directory.