Re: SAMBA Newbie: Running applications
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 05:47:06PM -0300, Rossy Roman Salgado wrote:
| On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Lars Jensen wrote:
|
| > We just configured a potato with samba server, and it seems to work. I
| > understand that this way I can use the potato as a file server for our
| > Windows PC's. My questions is whether I also can run install
| > windows applications on the samba server and run them on the Windows
| > PC's? If so, which applications can be run this way?
|
| Applications can run in a samba shared volume just like you do it in a
| local vfat partition.
True, however some applications store absolute paths in configs (drive
letter included) or may require some support stuff on the client
system (ie registry entries or files in c:\windows\system). For some
things it is fine, other apps suck. You have to try it to find out
which ones are which.
-D
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