OK, When I woke up this morning, with a clearer head, I got it.
put a samba share on your unix box. and have the windows machine, write to the samba share directly. as a mapped drive.

That way, your unix box, would & could read the file directly, - its on the same server/ drive, and the windows client - running VFP could use it as a mapped drive.

Obsiously, it may or may not work, depending on your network topography, but in theory, its the only way I could think of, you 'could' force it.

Bob Lee


>Bob,
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>yes, what you write will work and I use that all the time too - BUT, it's a bit of "cheat" in this case. Remember that I want to do this through the ODBC driver with the end result being that I wind up doing it [through an ODBC driver] from the Unix box. Mapping a drive letter works in the Windows case of course, but doesn't translate to Unix. And yes, By Jove!, I *never* work without a firewall but it's easy enough to set the rules to allow that traffic through.

I just dont like giving up. (as you see)

Bob

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>I think you're right that there's no other easy way to do this...