You could use DCOM and instanciate it just like a local OLE. (CREATOBJECTEX). If you got a server to do some testing on, get back to me. I think record pointing with DCOM is an under utilized feature!
Terry



>I want to have a VFP application open a VFP table that resides on a Remote IIS server using the internet.
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>Is ADO a viable method to do this?
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>Can you open a ADO connection to a VFP table without having a DSN? If so could someone provide a sample connection string for this?
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>TIA
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>Bud