>I've been talking to a computer network specialist who recommends that we take our VFP data off of our NT4 server and create seperate Linux file server to hold the VFP data. We have about 15 users who are accessing the data during that day. They have complained (occasionaly) about saves taking 3 to 5 seconds to complete.
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>He thinks that will speed things up a bit. Has anyone out there tried this already? If so, did you see any noticeable increase in speed of the APP?

A Linux/Samba server is not a "magic bullet" to speed up your app. You need to identify your current bottleneck(s):

- Is your NT server currently overloaded with other large apps like SQL Server, Exchange, etc.? Have you run PerfMon to look at CPU, RAM usage, etc.?

- If you're still running 10Mb networking, upgrading to 100Mb is cheap these days.

Putting your VFP data on a separate server lets you dedicate a separate processor and disk subsystem. However, this does not need to be Linux, it could just as easily be another NT or W2K server.

The price of a Linux box looks attractive up-front, but after counting configuration and on-going administration you might be better off sticking with MS products.

Having said all that, I have a client running a couple of VFP apps with a Linux/Samba server. It works fine but performance is pretty much indistinguishable from what you'd expect NT/W2K to do with the same hardware.