You have to first create your RDP the usual way. It is pretty simple
after you get the RDP client on your workstation. I believe there are
different versions. Google mstsc.exe The shortcut I gave was done on
Win7. After you have the RDP access working, you create the shortcut I
described to be able to log in automatically without seeing the RDP
client window displayed. If you only have one monitor, don't use the
/span If you don't have experience using RDP to access a server, I would
recommend that you experiment with that. For me it was trial and error
but that was years ago and I forget the details. I know once it worked,
it seemed that it was obvious. I think you can RDP into Win7 but I have
not tried that.
I have not tried this, but I understand there is an RDP client for the
Chromebook and almost everything else, even Mac. I have a Samsung Note3.
I got an android RDP client for it and it works. I just did that as a
test to see if it was possible. Our application is for bookkeeping so I
can't imagine doing much without a real keyboard.
You can also use VNC to access a server and run VFP that way. I have
done that. Problem is that it is single user (as far as I know). Using
RDP you can have many users running a single VFP program as you want as
long as it works correctly on a standard Ethernet network.
We thought about offering this as a service to our company's clients.
Trouble is that our clients are all doing healthcare billing and we have
very few clients who could maintain this. We are not willing to that
support on at this time. We do have clients who have local hardware
support. They have replaced an in-house Win20xx server with a cloud
server. We do not get involved so I don't know details. We don't hear
any complaints so I assume it works well. I know some clients have more
than 10 simultaneous users and think the speed it much better than on
Ethernet.
For our company it works so well that we would never think of running
our servers in-house again. The 3 companies that I mentioned are
companies that we use for our development and other things. We have
offices in 3 states from coast to coast and we all access the same
programs successfully with few issues. This is for Ed: We use Rackspace
to host our MS Exchange. I believe they also have Win20xx servers with
RDP access available, but we have not used them.
On 9/10/2014 1:42 PM, Sytze de Boer wrote:
Kam, this sounds all very encouraging.
I am curious about how to create a short cut with
C:\Windows\System32\mstsc.exe /span "C:\Users\RDP\TS109_Administrator.rdp"
And specifically, how do you get on for PRINTING ?
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 3:08 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]>
wrote:
We only use their VPS with access by RDP. Note that this is a Windows
2008/12 server (your choice - unfortunately Win2003 is no longer available)
so the VFP installation is the same as installing on a local workstation.
We install FileZilla on the 2008/12 server so we can get things on and off
the server easily. Just FTP your install exe to the server and then execute
it as you would on a local workstation.
All 3 of these are the same except for pricing, storage, memory, etc. You
choose what works best for you. For 2 users on 2008/12 you should have a
minimum of 2 gb memory (just my opinion). We find that the amount of memory
you have mainly affects performance. If you google 'remote desktop hosting'
you will get many hits. Be sure to use it for at least a couple of weeks
before committing to production. We have tried several in the past 6 months
that failed and had to reinstall the OS. The 'support' did not have any
idea what happened. We lost all our data, programs, etc. Of course we
always have a local complete backup at least every evening or after any
major changes. We use Webfaction (recommended on this list long ago). This
is a very low cost, reliable Linux web host we have used for at least 6
years. We backup our terminal servers onto webfaction. The speed is up to
10mb/second so it does not take long. Then we have a local workstation with
over 30TB storage and use SyncBackSE scheduled backup from Webfaction to
local storage and keep up to one years daily backup.
Our opinion is that there are some amateurs out there offering services
that have no idea what they are doing.
We prefer to program with 2 monitors - one for the running program and one
for the VFP debugger. Here is a trick to use with Win2008/12. When you
access by RDP use a shortcut target with something like this:
C:\Windows\System32\mstsc.exe /span "C:\Users\RDP\TS109_Administrator.rdp"
Note the '/span' this will cause your display to use both monitors. Very
nice.
On 9/9/2014 7:52 PM, Sytze de Boer wrote:
Please help me and guide me
Are you saying there is a Fox app you have developed on a drive with
Hostwinds
What would you say to me if I said I want to do something like this where
my App may be little "backward" and consists of basically an EXE, 200
dbf/cdx/fpt files and 200 frx/frt files
Hostwind suggest I should choose their vps option
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 3:05 AM, [email protected] <
[email protected]>
wrote:
We currently are running our VFP9 SP2 application on servers at:
AccuWebHosting.com, hostwinds.com, InfinitelyVirtual.com.
On 9/9/2014 5:58 AM, Paul Hemans wrote:
I currently run my own servers and have a number of clients connecting
via RDP sessions. I need off-site redundancy, can anyone recommend a
site that runs cheap 2003 - 2008 server systems that give you access
to setting up windows services, IIS, RDP sessions and the like.
Thanks.
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