Subject Re: Google Drive as a file sever From Pieter Pretorius <pieter@pret.co.za> Date Mon, 16 Sep 2019 11:20:28 +0200 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Ed, I also believe it is a hot subject as you described it. I use Teamviewer's VPN connection in certain instances and only when I do some changes myself on a customer's tables. This method is sometimes very slow and you have to be patient, but it works. At one client's premises, I used a different approach. The factory connects to the office via a wi-fi connection that is very unreliable and quite a distance away. I created the BDE connection on a local machine's harddrive (in the factory) as if it was the server, with another connection to the fileserver in the office. The fileserver's data is updated only if there is a connection available. Same thing happens with data from the office to the factory. The factory 'server' will update it's own tables from the fileserver in the office if and when the connection to the fileserver is available. I also thought that there must be a better way and that is why I requested advice in the programming group. I am looking into a way that I could still use the .dbf tables on the local network, but be able to update a web server database (or a domain controller) with a database like MySQL from the local network, and then take it further with a web app. Pieter "edward racht"  wrote in message news:5KmWYnAbVHA.3768@ip-AC1E04A7... Yiannis H. Economides > Any ideas please ? > Anyone tried this ? > > Regards Dear Yiannis, I am sorry you disappeared from the disussion that you wanted and so carefully posted in the newgroup. If you look at the names of the people who responded, you may conclude some very experienced dBASE developers volunteered their time for this  - providing their two cents based upon you first request for a discussion. Then you chose not to participate. So, are we blowing a lot of hot air between ourselves or did we not comprehend your true request for a discussion? Should you not like the direction of the discussion you must say so. You need to explain yourself in computer terms we understand such as: Does this server in the cloud only handle your own personal devices. Is the server in the cloud a client based with multi-users. Does your project use Inno? Is it DEO? Do you understand the purpose for the cloud in business? Do you understand the purpose for the Source Aliases in the setup of dBASE? Please respond!! To me this is a hot subject with a great future but only for what it is designed and set up for as it is virtual. ed