Hi Colin,

These are good questions. It seems like RAS would be perfect for this. I think your VFP application would have to send a string of information to
the remote Window OS using a static IP address. The remote RAS would be listening to a specific port and would respond with a login request. Port 80 is the normal port on which web server listen. When they receive a request, they respond with the requested web page. When the RAS received the calling string
it would begin a normal RAS session. Using RAS would not be as scalable as using a normal web connection because you would establish a connection in which a state existed as opposed to a stateless connection, but a RAS connection would be much more secure (e.g. operating system would need a name and password that assigned user to a group that have privileges to certain directories to perfrom certain tasks, read, write, etc.)

I'm getting kind of hungry. Should have waited until after lunch to post. I'll check back in about an hour.