Hi Daniel !
Unfortunetly your idea is still unclear for me. But I try to draw possibile
scenarios.

In general if you want to use dial up connection you have three choices:
1- use terminal services (Win2000, Citrix) with VFP frontend and any type of databas you want as backend
2- use local exe files connecting to a client-server type database
with VFP frontend and client-server type database backend
3- use internet explorer as a frontend and and any type of database you want as backend.

In first scenario you can use any type of database you choose (VFP,SQlServer, Oracle). It is quite simple to implement. Program runs on remote machine, tmp files are created on remote machine also. But is is not big problem - each user can have separate directory for such tasks.
This solution has small requeirments as regards as bandwidth (only screens and mouse movements are sended up the wire - 56kb/s transfer make it possible).

Second scenario in more difficult to implementation.
In the scenario exe file can be downloaded and run on local machine. In such scenario (using dial-up connection) you can use VFP database in theory but in practice you can't.
In this scenario you should use client-server technology. In other words program can be run on local machine, the program send query to remote server (SQl Server), server sends results to local machine and next results can be processed/presented on local machine.
This solution has greater requeirments as regards as bandwidth then the first solution (query results have to be sended up the wire) and exludes VFP database as server database.

Third scenario is probably the best solution in case of using dial-up connection. But in this case you additionaly should know ASP technology prefferably ASP.NET. As backend you can use VFP database or SQL Server.
In this case user connects to the database using www services and properly designed html/aspx pages.

Hope this help

Good luck and trzymaj sie.


>Thank you for your respond.
>1.Remote users will be connected using dial up connection.
>2.I apologize for not making my question clear enough. Let me try again.
>Users will be using one executable and all temporary files that needs to be modified I would like to place on the user's local drives. The question is: How can I setup an executable to use user's local drive for accessing temporary files?
>
>Dziekuje,
>Daniel