[ale] Two offices, one data pool

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 11:31 -0500, John Pilman wrote:
> We do something similar with our timesheets data.  The program can be
> loaded on the satellite machine, but the data resides on a server in
> the office.  The performance of this arrangement is really bad, so
> most of us VPN in and then start a Remote Desktop session on
> timesheets server.   That's much faster for us.  I'm the only one
> using Linux, so thankfully OpenVPN and rdesktop are working fine.
> Actually, there's not a Linux version of the program, so this is a
> double good method for me.

Sadly, even a single remote desktop session is enough to bring this
network to its knees.  It wouldn't be so bad if the average size of mail
weren't so large; but there are mails up to 20 MB coming in and going
out of the connection all the time.  Sigh.  Something having to do with
the way the documents are prepared in Word and such...

	--- Mike
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