Thanks a lot Sergey

Your answer bout MSDE have been very helpfull to me.

Regards

Oscar COrte

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>>Do I need to create a DSN on the client machine in order to connect to the SQL Server on the WinXP box?
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>Yes, if you want to access Sql Serve using DSN.
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>>By looking at some samples at the fox.wiki.com, it looks like if you can execute sqlstringconnect in order to establish a connection to the DSN and start creating, modifying, etc. the SQLServer database without having to create a connection into a VFP database. However, the views should be created and I think it is here when database created connections are needed. Is it that the sqlstringconnect function is useful only to perform administration activities for the SQL connection and remote view should be created in order to access the data?
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>Sqlstringconnect() allows to create DSN-less connections but can be used with SPT only. You cannot use it with views.