Had someone ask me this question. They are downsizing their PC's
They have UV currently installed on a Windows Server PC - and each of the PC's
using wintergate to access it.
This server is having some issues, so they want to move UV off of it, and have
it run on one of their client PC
Running
One of the things you may need to watch real careful would be locking.
Especially on the workstation that is hosting UV. Then, as long as all
the drive letters are the same as on the server, everything should be
okay. Of course, YMMV but I've done this type of swapping on my home
network with
Locking issues once UV is running on the Windows 7 machine, or locking issues
caused by
Copying over the data and overwriting the fresh install?
This won't be a heavily used system (3 or 4 users maximum and even then should
be too taxing).
Should they max out the memory on the PC it's going to
Oh, I'd always say go for more memory. Especially if there are other
Windows apps that are going to be used on that computer. As to the
locking, the normal record locks inside of UV once it's moved. Just do
a simple edit of a record on the workstation, then from another
workstation, edit the
Hi Bob,
Post migration, one thing for consideration might be user education
regarding the new use of their workstation/PC?
No more will the user just be able to re-boot it when it freezes etc or
shut it down each night at home-o'clock.
Cheers
Peter
On 19/11/13 05:55, Woodward, Bob wrote:
Oh, I'd
No one has pointed out the elephant in the room yet, so I will. Windows 7
is not intended for this use; while this configuration may work for some
values of work, stability issues can and should be expected. In
particular, I would expect the network stack to be, unh, flaky might be
the best
