I have here also a question for the experts regarding also our server connection which is connected to a dsl line.
I have no problem connecting to our server using dial-up, but if I try to connect via internet by supplying the remote with the static IP address for that server. it won't work. I contacted and explain my problem to the personnel responsible at our I.S.P. here, he just told me that the problem is in the APPLICATION i am using. he says that I have to configure the settings of my application.
my server is one of the 10 PC's connected to a router modem which has a different IP addresses for the LOCAL AREA coNNECtion than that given by the I.S.P. to be use in remote access.
My question, is VFP has a configuration setting for an IP address in order to be able to be access from remote client
My understanding is that if you could connect thru the internet or dial-up or lease line, that's all, I access my file on the server open my VFP APPLICATION remotely do whatever I wanted. that's already a client/server.
and also if i configure the setting of the IP of our server by the IP provided by the I.S.P.
the internet connection of the server will stop working.
or this is not the forum where i ask this question maybe in Windows O.S. but i dont know the windows forum, can anybody point me to the right direction
thank you very much for any help.
how can we connect to a server which is connected to a modem router?
NETknightX
thank you dave for your time...got the problem solve now... i thought the application is the problem, The I.S.P. has sent me the detailed explanation why I can't connect to the server.
Again thank you
Andrea Schaffernorth
Have you considered "remoting" in with software such as Windows XP's Remote Desktop
Thank you for your reply ma'am, but before you can log-in to a remote desktop, you must first establish an inital connection either from dial-up or thru the internet. In a local area network you can directly use that remote disktop.
My problem is in the inital connection using the internet.
bopritchard
I don’t fully understanding what you are saying here …
But you are correct in the fact the there is no difference FoxPro when connecting to a server on the LAN or on the internet. (Putting programming techniques and performance aside).
I believe what you have here is a security issue. Check you firewall settings, On your Local computer (if there is one) on you LAN as well as the one there server is behind.
Using dial will bypassing your local Firewall (router) so check that first.
Dave M.
Lepaca
Hi Madix_t,
Since you're using dial-up, opening any kind of file over the wire will be slow and subject to problems if the connection is flaky. Have you considered "remoting" in with software such as Windows XP's Remote Desktop You'll actually be running the application on the machine you're remoting to, and what will be coming over the wire is just pictures of the desktop on the target machine. You will need to set up permissions on the client machine.
You've also mentioned "client/server." Even though you are working remotely between a client machine and a target machine (server) you aren't working with VFP in a "client/server" way such as the way you would access SQL Server or Oracle, MySQL, etc. With these apps the server owns the data, does the work, and serves it up to clients. FoxPro is not a client-server database, but rather a "file server" database just the way Excel and text files are.