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On Nov 09 22:11, 1997, Mike Bilow of 1:102/927 wrote:
MB> Chuma Agbodike wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:
CA>> On a two node network that I have setup, NT4 server has the
CA>> Office 97 on it. Then I installed the NT WS 4.0 on another
CA>> and linked the two together using 2 NE2000 clones. I was
CA>> going to install the Office 97 on the WKS too, but just
CA>> decided to try to run the one on the server to see if it
CA>> works from the WKS. I browsed with explorer and clicked on
CA>> the executable on the server. It fired up on my station.
CA>> I typed a document, saved it and even emailed it to an
CA>> account on the internet. That surprised me too because when
CA>> I clicked send from inside WORD, netscape dialemy ISP and I
CA>> clicked send and out the file went.
MB> OK, this sounds pretty straightforward.  Internet Explorer has some magic 
MB> in it that integrates with Office specifically, which is why the fax 
MB> worked.
CA>> So I began to wonder what the differece is between a file
CA>> server and an application server. I thought only applcation
CA>> server would let me use a program on the server.
MB> Only an application server lets you RUN the program on the server.  In 
the 
MB> case you describe, you used the network to load the program files from 
the 
MB> file server into the workstation memory, and the program actually RAN on 
MB> the workstation.
CA>> Am still confused.
MB> Does this help clear it up?
Getting there but not quite yet..
Is it built into the application program "to know" when to run on the server.
And if the program is not designed as such to run in the work station 
mory.?
In other words there isn't an option in my NT server (I dont see any) that
I can enable:
Like click here to enable File Server mode
or   click here to enable Application server mode.
Chuma
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