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Binaries on one server, run from clients
Name: Sanjay Jha Date: June 24, 2002 at 13:49:16 Pacific
Comment:
Hi, Here is the requierement or may be just a thought ;) In a microsoft family network (I mean keeping 98, NT, 2000 etc. in a network), can there be a way that software is installed on one and could we execute from all other network clients? For example, install MS-Office on one server in the network and make some registery changes and run from various clients...it will save a lot of space on other workstations !
Name: Brian Date: June 24, 2002 at 14:00:05 Pacific
Reply:
You can, but why. Most computer come with cheap 30 - 60 gig HD's these days. In some cases personel computer come with more space then servers. There are programs like SMS that can do that...
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Response Number 2
Name: joe smith Date: June 24, 2002 at 15:15:09 Pacific
Reply:
I think you are asking about an Application Server. Yes you can do that, but it doesn't get around the licensing issue. If you run MS Office on two machines, you need two licenses.
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Response Number 3
Name: Danny Larouche Date: June 25, 2002 at 19:51:31 Pacific
Reply:
Citrix Metaframe is what you are looking for. This is a corporate application server.
Concerning licence, citrix give a legal way to bypass it will their Nfuse that launch multiple applications over the web using only 1 license.
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