I'm often surprised anyone can ask that question. Seems to me, the server and network would have to be awfully fast to be shared by 10 people and beat a local single user hard drive. High end EIDE hard drives transfer 37 Megabytes per second. A network card transfers 100 mega bits per second or 12.5 Megabytes per second. The fastest server is still going to be limited to that rate. Further, when multiple people are sharing the server, depending on the task, there will be times where the server is the bottle neck, reducing the transfer rate further.


>Thanks Mike
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>thats interesting. SO it is accepted that an exe is best placed on the local machine. Plus any local files created etc ?
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>Nick Mason
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>>Hi Nicholas
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>>It was message 982490.
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>>>Mike
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>>>I'm interested in that posting.
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>>>Could you report it here ?
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>>>I'm at a site which has many exe's some of which get copied to a local PC by a starter application and some don't. I was wondering if there was a best practise I should follow.
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>>>Nick Mason
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>>>>I just recently posted something demonstrating it is a constant performance problem to have multiple users share one exe/app. Don't trouble yourself with sharing anything except the data, which is all the absolutely must be shared. ;)
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>>>>>A programmer with whom I have an acquaintance has been unsuccessfully trying to allow multiple users to access one APP file on the local area network. I went in this weekend and set things up differently, compiled to an EXE and set it up where the users will execute the program from their own PC's.
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>>>>>Does this have to do with threading?
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>>>>>Cecil