>One of my clients with a VFP app on a network in their office wants to ba able to dial into the network from a laptop at a remote location. Obviously there will be speed implications and I need to know what if anything can be done to reduce them to a minumum.
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>i.e. should the exe file be on the laptop and access the system files on the network server without downloading the exe file from the server?
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>Any advice here would be appreciated

The implementation of a Thin Client access solution would be best. Take a look at W2000 Terminal Server.

HTH