on Tue, May 08, 2001 at 03:05:04PM +0200, Andrea Magatti (magatz@YAHOO.COM) wrote: > This time i'm trying to be more clear: > > The architecture "now": > > Compute Server: on a Sun Solaris server (E6500) > > Client: Win NT 4, using client SAS from a local File Server. that means: > each time a client calls SAS.EXE > this has to be retrieved from the local file server, the same appens for > each DLL pointed by a SAS module (AF, GRAPH, EIS etc...). This way each > client has a pure "SAS client installation". > > I would be pleased to know wheter: > 1) can i put the SAS executable on a Samba network drive. This way i can > point a logical drive to the Samba share on th Sun Solaris machine, avoiding > this way to use the File Server (too busy for "real" file sharing) > 2) has anyone tested this kind of architectural, with an heavy SAS > application (AF developed) , with a lot of client server interaction ? > > Thanks in advance (first to Kasten....)

I don't see any reason it shouldn't work, you might want to just give it a shot.

You're already running SAS from a networked fileserver, Samba is pretty much a functional equivalent for WinNT/2K in this regard. You're not running SAS from the Solaris box, you're hosting it there. Though fnord knows, the wrath of SAS/Legal may descend on you for this....

Any reason you can't just try (and report back the results)?

Cheers.

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