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>A Linux/Samba server is not a "magic bullet" to speed up your app. You need to identify your current bottleneck(s):
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>- 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.?
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>- If you're still running 10Mb networking, upgrading to 100Mb is cheap these days.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.

Thanks - that's what I wanted to know. I think we have identified the server as the bottleneck and we're trying to provide some relief. We are on 100MB (and thinking about the 1GB stuff).

I just didn't know if Linux provided any boost in processing the requests - I'll try a seperate machine with MS2000 and see what that does. Thanks for your advice.