>>Hi,
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>>A prospective customer is asking if he can store my VFP 9 application on NAS (Windows Storage Server 2012). I just read about this NAS online which seems to me should work. But my question is, if anybody used NAS, how do local PCs "see" this NAS? As a server drive? For example, does NAS have C: drive where I can create a folder (e.g. MyApp) and copy application files to it? Will then local PCs have access to this folder as e.g. \\NasServerName\MyApp?
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>>TIA for any input.
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>The NAS is just a drive, for all intents and purposes.
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>Thus, it is the equivalent of running a VFP application over the network, which most often isn't a great idea (given that VFP reads and caches on the local machine, so will be going back and forth to the EXE during execution to get various parts of the program). For a really small app, everything might be cached, so it's probably something that would need to be tested vs. having the app on the local machine. Even a 1GB network isn't as fast as a local drive (because everything coming from the NAS is on a local drive in the NAS, which is the limiting factor, and SMB transfer doesn't compare with bus transfer in the local machine).
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>And, of course, the runtime will still have to be on the local machines; and you'll still have to deal with activex registrations, etc.
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>hth,
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>Hank

You are correct that the runtime and activex will be installed/registered on the local machine(s). And you are correct that the app will be going back and forth to the NAS drive. And this is how my app works for all customers (except the others have full blown server instead of NAS). So far it has not been a problem, in terms of speed. When the customer has NAS ready we will test it.
Thank you.