On a server (win 2000) pe or server, mark the folder as shared. and give permissions to the users who will be accessing that folder.

That machine has to be on the internet with static ip address. and the ports open...

Then on the clients machines you map to that folder, in various ways.
one way that I use is is the from start -> rurn \\XXX.XXX.XXX.XX to the ip address of the server.

Then map the drive when its connected, (the users will be prompted for their user name and password ) if the server user name for is different than their logged in username.

Its a little slow to connect (maybe a minute sometimes depending on bandwidth, and if you have large tables (over a few megs) then it can be slow to work with the data this way...becuase the index files, and quite a lot of the data does come over the interenet.

But in the cases where the tables themselves are small, and the userbase is small, its quite simple to set up, and work with.

Bob Lee


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>>Or depending on your requirments, you could put your dbf's index's and dbc on a shared drive over the internet, and install the users with your custom application, to read from a mapped drive pointing to the shared drive.
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>Bob:
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>And how do I setup a shared drive over the Internet? And on the clients side how do I map a drive pointing to the server?
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>Thanks for you help