Hello Ron,
You need to build an InstallShield package that will install and properly register all the VFP8 runtime files on each workstation that will be running VFP executables off the server. You can do it (build the install) without a VFP executable, but I would suggest making a simple "Hello World" program and so that would be installed on the workstation as an indication that a computer is able to run VFP8 programs.
HTH,
Randy Bosma
VFP - Because life is too short to code in something else...