Report speed over VPN issue

[John Esak]

well as a big
> savings on gas & tolls), she saves the report to a default folder on her
> desktop and emails it to herself, then prints the report to the printer
> connected to the remote machine.

We do so many of the same things you do, except that we use Sco Open Server
and filePro with Facetwin or Anzio  on the RDP'd box.  I think you have
described a good working model regarding the batch scripts and so forth to
your Windows based system. The RDP option is so nice because it gives the
remote user an entire desktop (usually their entire desktop to work with
rather than just a character -based login to our filePro stuff. I'm leaning
more and more toward making this a reality for more of our users.

>
> The nice thing about Remote Desktop is that you can modify the online
> options to eliminate the caching of desktop bitmaps and some of the
> graphic-intensive items on the desktop.  On pcAnywhere, you don't get that

Very true. The PCAnywhere also is just a giant bitmap itself, meaning it can
not be read with a screen reader. Very bad for me, in fact useless.  Can you
tell me more about disabling some of the graphic overhead   you mention
above. Where is this stuff, and what are some of the names of the items to
disable.  I am curious to learn as much about RDP as I can. I think it is
fantastic. Although, our systems and servers are so fast, that speed  has
not been any problem so far. At least, I'm not bothered by or even notice
any speed problems yet.  Incidentally, even more useful to me than RDP'ing
directly to anyone's desktop is the virtual desktop that can be given to any
user just logging into a main RDP server. It can look almost exactly like
the user's own desktop, and the user can STILL run his own desktop at the
same time. this is pretty cool stuff.

John