This quesiton has many answers and none of them really simple. however there are ways to to do this.
These are a few I can think of off the top of my head. (I am sure there are more) ..


FTP does not allow for file sharing or opening files. it only transmits files.

You can put your data on a server which has the folder shared. Then from the internet the users could hit those files and share the dbf;s using

A command like like
use \\myserver.com\myfolder\myfile in 0 alias myfile
or use \\215.xxx.xxx.xxx\myfolder\myfile etc.

This works, but it a bit slow, and does have security issues you have to consider.

VPN's is a more secure way to acheive this.

And XML is one other way. using a server / web server, or sql server.

But dont forget using some sql server, msDE for example. ... this would require quite a bit of reprogramming on your side, to access your tables remotly, using odbc, or oledb but then your internet users could also access your data in the very same way (using only a 56K dial up to the net) Once again depending on security issues.




>This may sound lame, but I am a good foxpro programmer with very bad knowledge of the WEB. What would be the best way to do this?