Hi John,

Now, if Microsoft would provide a Linux/Unix port of FoxPro, I could support multi-platfroms with my app. The prospect of this ever happening appear pretty slim.

I was messing around in Redhat 8.0 last night. The update agent icon was red, so I performed an update which gave me samba 2.7. I decided to take
a look to see what might be new in samba. In reading some of the swat help, I noticed that a samba share could be mounted under NFS. I have my web/mail server with a NetBIOS name of "mail" running under RedHat 7.3 with a samba share like:

[C]
Comment = Linux Partition
valid users = user1 user2 user3 user4
path = /
read only = No
writeable = Yes

I then create a new directory for a mount point on my destop RedHat 8.0 desktop computer as follows:

/mnt/smb

I was able to mount the entire web/mail server onto the desktop computer's file system as follows:

mount -t smbfs //mail/C /mnt/smb

A password was required, after which the pound prompt re-appeared.
I changed to the /mnt/smb directory in the desktop computer and did
a [dir]. Sure enough, everything on the web/mail server samba share
appear in the /mnt/smb directory just as if it was native to the
desktop computer.

I did a [man mount] command and noticed that the mount -t option support
many types of file systems including:

HPFS
MSDOS
SMBFS
VFAT
NTFS

So far I as know, NTFS file system support is not built into the default RedHat 8.0 kernel, but It can be added with a recompile. This would make
it possible to mount a Microsoft Windows share onto your Linux Box. If
the parameters to mount an NTFS file system were added to the /etc/fstab file, the Linux OS would mount the foreign NTFS file system onto its own file system during bootup.