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by teddyrux

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I have a customer that wants to run NW5.0 as an application server. He wants to run 3 Foxpro programs from the server, the Eudora client for 10 pc's from the server, and he wants to have the word and excel files run the server also. He thinks thatit will work. What I need is some something I can show him that it's not designed to work that way. Can someone point me in the right direction????????

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by estebandelatorre

That won't be an application server, but it will work.
Word & Excel works better in local hd due to the fact that 50% of the size of word and excel files are dll located in \system or system32. You can't avoid this (That's why this won't be an app server, where dll's will be at the server!!)
Eudora client is a very light app, it will work.
I recommend first try the foxpro programs. Some old versions prior to DOS 2.6, may have sharing problems with the runtime files.
Otherwise, if he wants this, just gave him what he wants...

Good luck, and remember:Netware allways win!

by dragon_45

You could install Foxpro, Excel, Words, Etc
on each unit. Given hard drives are big are
large enough. Then set data files to your
file server. This will free up the server to
just dish out just data. This works great for me! I used Dataease instead of Foxpro. But, I am sure this would work much better.

Good luck
Richard Bolha
Dragon@one.net

by dragon_45

Also, you can use ghost to install all the
programs on your local drives. If you need
help setting your data files to the server.
Chat back!

Richard Bolha
dragon@one.net

by dragon_45

How about a few phone calls from your other customers? We could all email this customer our advice? I think real people could change his thinking more than a book. If all fails,
you can just let him pay you to fix his poor decision!

Richard Bolha

by mad max

Very hard but you could try installing the applications in the dos partition which would not work... This is not true application networking and ( I'm sorry guys ) this will work and not badly either.

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