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ANY IDEAS ON HOW TO RUN PROGRAMS OFF A SERVER?

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hololog99   12-13-2006 at 09:53:10 PM

I am an admin responsible for about 20 computers and a server on a network at a small business. Does anyone have any ideas on how to setup an application server to run basic office programs such as a web browser, email, word processing, spreadsheets etc? I would love to be able to make everyone a terminal client and run all the programs off of the server so that updates are fast and easy. Can this be done trhough small business server 2003? I don't really have any programming skills so I would need a 3rd party solution. Also if there is an open source "free" solution I would love to hear about it.

Thanks for the help.

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FredWeston   12-20-2006 at 08:33:25 PM
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Sure, that's exactly what MS terminal services is for. You'll have to buy licenses for every user though.

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lotussama   12-26-2006 at 08:57:47 PM
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However, Small Business Server won't run in Application Server mode. You'd need to upgrade to Windows Server Standard Edition.

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DeadFire   01-02-2007 at 06:11:48 AM
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Or you could just set up a computer on the network running Linux that has a free terminal server built in! I would go with Red Hat 9.

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Iceblue   01-02-2007 at 07:24:52 PM
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Or you could just set up a computer on the network running Linux that has a free terminal server built in! I would go with Red Hat 9.

A terminal server is not the same as an application server.

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DeadFire   01-02-2007 at 07:30:42 PM
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Dude, bug off... You have came through here and tried to diss all my comments. Well whatever it doesn't bother me any. Yes, you can use a terminal server to execute applications. And Linux can do that. End of story...

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Iceblue   01-02-2007 at 07:55:14 PM
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The OP wanted to serve applications to his PCs, not run them remotely with a terminal. Big difference. Dude.

Unless you are actually suggesting that he, an admitted non-programmer, convert a small office of 20 PCs to Linux and spend the rest of his career holding their hands.

Besides, I'm not "trying to diss" your comments. I am correcting your errors and misstatements and stating my opinion. If you don't want other opinions that disagree with yours, don't post on a public board. And, don't take things so personally. I have no idea who you are.

You stated (in another thread) that you are in the military. Thank you for your service.

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DeadFire   01-02-2007 at 11:20:32 PM
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My apologizes I didn't mean to get "hot headed". Thank you for the thanks of being in the military. Well you don't need to convert the whole network to Linux. Linux has a feature, SMB, that works both ways with Linux and Windows file transfer. I am running a game server where the games are accessed off a Linux machine, but being ran by a Windows machine. So it is possible to do it. Just make a machine with Linux, set up some SMB accounts, then tell everyone about it. You will also have to make a script launcher for it. That isn't to hard you can find one off the internet.

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