Hosting filePro off-site

[Bob Rasmussen]

I believe you have two possible approaches:

1) You could run FP on each local desktop, while storing data on a remote 
server. Print Wizard would run as it does now. I see more cons than pros 
for this approach.

2) You could run sessions of FP on the remote server, accessed through 
RDP. Print Wizard would be tricky to set up. Others have indicated the RDP 
approach can have problems.

I have little first-hand experience with these scenarios, so take my 
opinion cautiously. But I see little value in making a change. They need 
the network and the client PCs anyway, and those PCs should be kept up to 
date. Keeping a Windows server running is little additional work.

On Wed, 9 Nov 2016, Delmont Neroni via Filepro-list wrote:

>
> Thanks for the reply
> Yes, this is a Windows based server, the client is moving to a new office and wants to, in his words, "get out of the IT business".
> Which I interpret as meaning he no longer wants to have an in-house server and local area network, be responsible for backups, security, and all of that.
> My concern is that we interface filePro with third party products like Printwizard, Sage Accounting, 1099Fire, and so forth.  These systems mostly run on the individual workstations, not the server.  I worry that it would create operational problems if they only run on the server in a remotely hosted situation.
> I guess we could access the remote server using remote desktop, but how many people could access it simultaneously that way?
>
> Del
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> One accesses it via ssh, for *nix-based systems.  That would be the idiom I
> would recommend.  You could use AnzioWin if you need pass-through printing,
> or PuTTY if you don't.  All processing and program execution is done on the
> hosting server in this scenario, with only screen draws (and any
> pass-through printing) going to the remote terminal.
>
> Windows...is going to be a headache for remote access.  You'd be looking
> at a few possible different ways of handling it, none of them nearly
> as pretty.  It's not pretty.  I would give a strong warn-off for this
> solution.
>
> mark->
>
> On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 06:32:31PM +0000, Delmont Neroni via Filepro-list thus spoke:
>> If you run filePro on a remotely hosted server, how do you access it?
>> Does it then still work as a client/server system, in which filePro
>> programs download to your workstation and then read and write
>> data to the server Or is all the processing done at the server level,
>> and your workstation just gets the results through displays
>> and pass through printing?
>> Sorry I can't ask the question more intelligently, but I'm sure you
>> understand what I am asking.
>>
>> Del neroni
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