Kevin, with the WestWind stuff, I used the FTP class, on the client side only.

You have to have an FTP server running on your central site which is always listening for connections. I used the normal out-of-the-box FTP server service which comes with NT or 2000.

You can designate a standard folder for all of the uploads. You could then have an instance of FoxPro at the central site which is responsible for polling the folder and looking for new updates, and then integrating those with the central database.

Another idea you might consider is the WS_FTP professional version. This has a "file synchronizer" function which is pretty automatic. It only works at the file level, as far as I know, however, not at the record level so it isn't a "real" synchronizer. WS_FTP also creates a .log file which might be useful to check, it will report the success or failure of the file transfer.

-- L