Unless you have set up a Virtual Private Network (VPN), you won't be able to connect to Windows shares over the Internet. Windows networking doesn't work that way.

Check out Rick Strahl's site (www.west-wind.com) and read some white papers he has on the subject of VFP remote data.

HTH.

>Hi all
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>I have this proposal to develop an app which has applications on the retail shops constantly working on the data from an internet server.
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>Local LAN can be accessed with UNCs like \\server_machine_name\shared_folder_name\database.dbc
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>What would differ for an always-on internet served data?
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>How to make the user gather the details for such an Internet UNC path? I will be working off-shore for this app, so the users will be very much on his own to an extent.
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>Any suggestions other than this idea of mine.
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>The user has a future view of this app as a internet based application and currently I am using CodeBook as the framework, will it be scalable for such a future requirement?
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>Please advise.