>Hi Al,
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>I understand that fine tuning is of the essence ... but under my customer's condition doing simple data entry is a problem.
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>For instance trying to do an incremental search of a lookup drop down list cannot be done efficiently or in some cases at all.
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>This is why I am wondering if Citrix WinFrame or Citrix Metaframe would not be the answer for these outside users ? I also wonder how these incremental searches of lookup drop down list would perform under Citrix ?
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>Also can you run some users (those on the LAN in building A) as they run now and the others (those in buildings B-C-D) on the Citrix server ?
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>Thanks.
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>Pierre Richard

Have you tried putting the dbc on the local drives. You will have to use the unc mappings to your tables, but it helps improve speed.