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Group, My company operates two mfg facilities about 30 minutes from each other. We are consideringe splitting our engineering group up to locally support the two plants. We currently run single-user licenses on our Engineers' boxes, and keep the data vault on servers. The data vault and some of us would stay in Location #1, while some of us would move to Location #2. We are exploring the various ways for the Location #2 engineers to access the data at Location #1.

Do you have any input for me? Do you know of anyone that is doing this or something similar?

The following questions were posed to me by our IT Manager: "I need to review our options running Solidworks at a remote location. Is it possible (or practical) to run this on a "terminal server"? I am looking at 3 options: Windows 2000 Terminal Server Windows 2003 Terminal Server Citrix MetaFrame XPA The remote user would login thru a "broadband" internet connection. Would they have full functionality?"

Any input would be greatly appreciated. Bruce Chapman Manager - Product Engineering Rayco Mfg, Inc.

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Bruce Chapman
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IF you are looking to just access the data from Location #1, the engineers would just need network access to the Location #1 vault. Why are you thinking Terminal Server? Are multiple engineers sharing the same SolidWorks computer? Please let us know and we will try to give you some ideas. Terminal servers are meant for less intensive applications such as Office, etc.

Best Regards,

-- Bob Hanson CEO Custom Programming Unlimited LLC SolidWorks Solution Partner in two categories (SW API training/consulting and SW PDM provider)

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Robert V. Hanson

Why not get a network license(s) for SolidWorks and share the seats and the vault?

If casual users are at one site consider VNC run through ssh on puTTY?

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kellnerp

First, I think that there are video limitations for TS...besides, I think that SoWo needs to be running on a local machine rather than over a terminal connection. Second, you could look at replicating the data vault in the second location. Depending on how much data gets changed during the day you should be able to replicate between sites and keep current.

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EricSIG
1) Don't even think about using TS - you will regret it 2) Same goes for VNC 3) We have a customer that has miltiple sites that are about 300km apart. They have set up a dedicted WAN link and are happy like the proverbial pig for the last 5(?) years. 4) If you really want to share the licences around - check out
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for information on how the swx network licence can (theoretically - I've never seen this done) work over a http connection. 5) Forget TS!!! 6) Forget VNC!!!
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Tracey Parker

thanks guys for all your input.

I have no desire to share the licenses. I only want to gain access to the main servers at headquarters. SWX will run on each box. Bruce Chapman Manager - Product Engineering Rayco Mfg, Inc.

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Bruce Chapman

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