On 7/20/07, Bill Merriam <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I clearly don't know much about small business applications and Windows.
>  I understand that with Quickbooks, Network edition, the client runs on
> the Windows client and the database server, Ingress, has to run on a
> Windows server so a Samba server won't be a usable substitute.  Do other
> small business apps run executables on the server, in addition to the
> client?  Can someone point me at an example of that so I can go look at it?
>
> Thanks.
> Bill

A lot of programs track licenses like this.  I know in the past I've
set up the "server" part of some apps on a desktop machine, to get
around having to use a windows app/file server.  Then set up a samba
server to serve home dirs and file/printer sharing.

For a small business where only 1 or 2 applications have this
limitation, it works.  For larger installs, not so much.

dan