> I have a reservation system running in a number of locations. Some of the installations are networked over several PC's in a single office, with the terminals configured to access data tables with DEFAULT = X added to the config.mem (a mapped drive letter).
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> This all works fine. Now I have users that wish to network satelite locations to the server using the internet.
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> Does anyone have any ideas how a mapped network drive can be achieved using the web (assuming the server system was connected using a static IP address).
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The file server approach does not work well in a wide-area network WAN, and also not so well via WLAN for that matter - connection is "too thin" usually, too much delay, timeouts, etc.
Your description rather sounds as if a VPN / "Terminal Services" approach might work, so that each long-distance user would work on the TS server, virtually connected vioe remote Desktop software, Citrix, MS "Terminal Services", "Team Viewer" etc.
There have been a few threads about that recently -> Foxite -> "Home" -> "Search"

(FWIW, UNC paths, like \\theServerName_or_IP\sharedFolder, do work better than mapped drives in my experience, because mapped folders sometimes fall into "sleep" mode (Windows issue).)



hth
-Stefan