Hi,

When I mentioned a linux file server running samba, what I had in mind was using the standard VFP DBC on a linux file server running samba within a local network. If the topic was about a web server running a linux DBM backend, then my suggestion was off target.

I run a linux web server and have recently moved from MySQL to Postgres. I use the perl DBI called from HTML pages to insert, delete, and update the database. I was able to make the change with very little change to the cgi-bin scripts. If I need to work with the postgres data, I can easily create a comma delimited text file and import it into a VFP table.

Your solution of using a common MySQL or Postgres Datastore, that could be accessed from a web server using perl, PHP, etc, and also be accessed using a VFP application via ODBC within the local network may be a better solution than what I'm currently doing. When I have a little time I plan to play with this an see how it works. By the way I enjoyed your article in Foxtalk "Going Cross-Platform Again: Using Visual FoxPro to Connect to a MySQL Database on Linux".