> I assumed that the only thing going "down the wire" was writes to the > screen, keyboard output, and printing, because even writes to "C" > would be done at the server side. Not so?
Funny what assumptions can mislead you. My experience is with Citrix, you may have to experiment to TS to see if my observations are true there also. On Citrix, the client C drive is C for the session. Other Client drives are often remapped to other letters. C on the server gets remapped to another letter. For this reason, anything which writes to C goes down the wire. You can test this by writing a test file to C, then look on your local drive to see if it went there. In addition, the drive lists on Citrix are pretty good about telling you which drives are on the server and which drives are on the client. All of this may be a function of how the server is set up. I just checked another citrix client and all the above is invalid :) In any case, some of this may help you troubleshoot you setup. Object is to minimize volume of data that must travel down the wire. Disk read/writes over the wire are way slow. Lower screen esolutions/colors will improve performance. I stick with 800x600 with 256 colors. It's quite adequate for most work you would do remotely. I'm using a broadband connection on my end with a T1 at the server. But performance was quite reasonable even when I was using a 50K modem. Hope this helps, Dennis McGrath
