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Setting up a Windows 2008 Terminal Server is
easy:
RemoteApp is a special mode of Remote Desktop
Services, formerly known as
Terminal Services, available only in Remote Desktop Connection 6.1
and
above. It allows your Clarion application to look like a locally
running
program (and with local printer support), but it is actually a
program
running over the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) on a remote server
with
direct access to your TPS or SQL database.
You need:
1. A Windows Server 2008 (32-bit or 64-bit) or Windows Server 2008
R2 (which
is available only in 64-bit), any edition. I'm using Windows Server
2008
Standard Edition 32-bit SP2, on a Dell PowerEdge T100. I don't have
a
monitor, keyboard or mouse connected to this computer. You need TS
Client
Access Licenses (CALs). I bought my TS CALs from Dell when I
purchased the
computer. You need about 32MB of RAM for each concurrent
user.
2. On the client, you need RDC 6.1 or above using Windows XP SP3,
Vista or
Windows 7 (comes with RDC 7.0).
3. On the server there is a wizard tool, under Administrative Tools
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Terminal Services | TS RemoteApp Manager, where you put in the
parameters
you want, such as the full pathname of your Clarion exe (on the
server), the
command line parameters if any, your server's router's (external)
IP
address, etc. and then you click on the "Create Windows Installer
Package"
button, which will create the .MSI file for you.
4. On the client, you run the .MSI file which is an executable file
and it
installs the RDP file in the C:\Program Files\RemotePackages folder
and puts
a shortcut on the desktop to that RDP file, or you can make your
RemoteApp
program available through TS Web Access, which allows users to
visit a web
site (Internet or intranet) to access a list of available
RemoteApp
programs.
5. Finally, allow your Internet users access to your server, by
opening the
TCP port 3389 on the router. (You don't need a static IP; I don't;
I'm using
a cable connection which hasn't changed its IP address in years).
The
terminal server listens on this port.
6. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Desktop_Services
for more info or
download the e-book published on January 4, 2010 by
Microsoft:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Free-Windows-7-and-Windows-Server-2008-R2-E-Books-
130985.shtml.
7. I subscribe to the newsgroup:
microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services.
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