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[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 23 April 2008]

Hi,

Consider this if you would please.

I have a customer running on unix in location A.
There is another site again running on unix in location B.

Following query has been asked.
Telesales people in location A would like to see stock availability in location B in real time and vise versa.
Basically if they call up a products details in location A showing their stock availability they'd like to see the same product's details in location B

Networking isn't an issue as such as both sites can be made "see" each other.

I'd originally thought about using C$COPY to copy the file from B to A using a mapped drive etc then just read it, but the file is too big in location A for copying to work.

Any ideas or thoughts as to what you'd do?

I know/think we could probably go down the acuserver route, but the cost would probably make it prohibitive

Samba is running on both the unix servers if that makes any difference?
I'm going off to read about samba now.
EDIT:
I just thought that I should be able to map a network drive to the data folder and open the file on the client using @DISPLAY.
I'll have a fiddle with this in the mean time.

Many thanks,

Shaun

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    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 23 April 2008]

    Hi,

    Consider this if you would please.

    I have a customer running on unix in location A.
    There is another site again running on unix in location B.

    Following query has been asked.
    Telesales people in location A would like to see stock availability in location B in real time and vise versa.
    Basically if they call up a products details in location A showing their stock availability they'd like to see the same product's details in location B

    Networking isn't an issue as such as both sites can be made "see" each other.

    I'd originally thought about using C$COPY to copy the file from B to A using a mapped drive etc then just read it, but the file is too big in location A for copying to work.

    Any ideas or thoughts as to what you'd do?

    I know/think we could probably go down the acuserver route, but the cost would probably make it prohibitive

    Samba is running on both the unix servers if that makes any difference?
    I'm going off to read about samba now.
    EDIT:
    I just thought that I should be able to map a network drive to the data folder and open the file on the client using @DISPLAY.
    I'll have a fiddle with this in the mean time.

    Many thanks,

    Shaun
    If you can map to the drive, what is the issue with just opening the data files?
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    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 23 April 2008]

    Hi,

    Consider this if you would please.

    I have a customer running on unix in location A.
    There is another site again running on unix in location B.

    Following query has been asked.
    Telesales people in location A would like to see stock availability in location B in real time and vise versa.
    Basically if they call up a products details in location A showing their stock availability they'd like to see the same product's details in location B

    Networking isn't an issue as such as both sites can be made "see" each other.

    I'd originally thought about using C$COPY to copy the file from B to A using a mapped drive etc then just read it, but the file is too big in location A for copying to work.

    Any ideas or thoughts as to what you'd do?

    I know/think we could probably go down the acuserver route, but the cost would probably make it prohibitive

    Samba is running on both the unix servers if that makes any difference?
    I'm going off to read about samba now.
    EDIT:
    I just thought that I should be able to map a network drive to the data folder and open the file on the client using @DISPLAY.
    I'll have a fiddle with this in the mean time.

    Many thanks,

    Shaun
    Sorry, another bit of key information missing.

    It all running via thin client from windows clients to a unix server.
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    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 23 April 2008]

    Hi,

    Consider this if you would please.

    I have a customer running on unix in location A.
    There is another site again running on unix in location B.

    Following query has been asked.
    Telesales people in location A would like to see stock availability in location B in real time and vise versa.
    Basically if they call up a products details in location A showing their stock availability they'd like to see the same product's details in location B

    Networking isn't an issue as such as both sites can be made "see" each other.

    I'd originally thought about using C$COPY to copy the file from B to A using a mapped drive etc then just read it, but the file is too big in location A for copying to work.

    Any ideas or thoughts as to what you'd do?

    I know/think we could probably go down the acuserver route, but the cost would probably make it prohibitive

    Samba is running on both the unix servers if that makes any difference?
    I'm going off to read about samba now.
    EDIT:
    I just thought that I should be able to map a network drive to the data folder and open the file on the client using @DISPLAY.
    I'll have a fiddle with this in the mean time.

    Many thanks,

    Shaun
    Sorry, another bit of key information missing.

    It all running via thin client from windows clients to a unix server.
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    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 23 April 2008]

    Hi,

    Consider this if you would please.

    I have a customer running on unix in location A.
    There is another site again running on unix in location B.

    Following query has been asked.
    Telesales people in location A would like to see stock availability in location B in real time and vise versa.
    Basically if they call up a products details in location A showing their stock availability they'd like to see the same product's details in location B

    Networking isn't an issue as such as both sites can be made "see" each other.

    I'd originally thought about using C$COPY to copy the file from B to A using a mapped drive etc then just read it, but the file is too big in location A for copying to work.

    Any ideas or thoughts as to what you'd do?

    I know/think we could probably go down the acuserver route, but the cost would probably make it prohibitive

    Samba is running on both the unix servers if that makes any difference?
    I'm going off to read about samba now.
    EDIT:
    I just thought that I should be able to map a network drive to the data folder and open the file on the client using @DISPLAY.
    I'll have a fiddle with this in the mean time.

    Many thanks,

    Shaun
    Perhaps you could put the file you need for Location A and B on a server that both server runtimes could access (a third common server or perhaps A and B can see each other) and use an alias or FILE-PREFIX to get to it?

    Obviously AcuServer would be able to do the trick, but if it's cost prohibitive...
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    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 23 April 2008]

    Hi,

    Consider this if you would please.

    I have a customer running on unix in location A.
    There is another site again running on unix in location B.

    Following query has been asked.
    Telesales people in location A would like to see stock availability in location B in real time and vise versa.
    Basically if they call up a products details in location A showing their stock availability they'd like to see the same product's details in location B

    Networking isn't an issue as such as both sites can be made "see" each other.

    I'd originally thought about using C$COPY to copy the file from B to A using a mapped drive etc then just read it, but the file is too big in location A for copying to work.

    Any ideas or thoughts as to what you'd do?

    I know/think we could probably go down the acuserver route, but the cost would probably make it prohibitive

    Samba is running on both the unix servers if that makes any difference?
    I'm going off to read about samba now.
    EDIT:
    I just thought that I should be able to map a network drive to the data folder and open the file on the client using @DISPLAY.
    I'll have a fiddle with this in the mean time.

    Many thanks,

    Shaun
    We do this with several of our apps. We export the directory with the files through NFS in unix. We set it as read only so site A cannot change the data at site B. We are also using Thin client. The cobol sees the NFS as a regular directory.
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    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 23 April 2008]

    Hi,

    Consider this if you would please.

    I have a customer running on unix in location A.
    There is another site again running on unix in location B.

    Following query has been asked.
    Telesales people in location A would like to see stock availability in location B in real time and vise versa.
    Basically if they call up a products details in location A showing their stock availability they'd like to see the same product's details in location B

    Networking isn't an issue as such as both sites can be made "see" each other.

    I'd originally thought about using C$COPY to copy the file from B to A using a mapped drive etc then just read it, but the file is too big in location A for copying to work.

    Any ideas or thoughts as to what you'd do?

    I know/think we could probably go down the acuserver route, but the cost would probably make it prohibitive

    Samba is running on both the unix servers if that makes any difference?
    I'm going off to read about samba now.
    EDIT:
    I just thought that I should be able to map a network drive to the data folder and open the file on the client using @DISPLAY.
    I'll have a fiddle with this in the mean time.

    Many thanks,

    Shaun
    Thanks everyone.

    Milton - I've been looking at the NFS option as I thought this is what I need to do.
    I'm trying to figure out how to setup NFS, so hopefully I'll be able to test something today.

    Shaun
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    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 23 April 2008]

    Hi,

    Consider this if you would please.

    I have a customer running on unix in location A.
    There is another site again running on unix in location B.

    Following query has been asked.
    Telesales people in location A would like to see stock availability in location B in real time and vise versa.
    Basically if they call up a products details in location A showing their stock availability they'd like to see the same product's details in location B

    Networking isn't an issue as such as both sites can be made "see" each other.

    I'd originally thought about using C$COPY to copy the file from B to A using a mapped drive etc then just read it, but the file is too big in location A for copying to work.

    Any ideas or thoughts as to what you'd do?

    I know/think we could probably go down the acuserver route, but the cost would probably make it prohibitive

    Samba is running on both the unix servers if that makes any difference?
    I'm going off to read about samba now.
    EDIT:
    I just thought that I should be able to map a network drive to the data folder and open the file on the client using @DISPLAY.
    I'll have a fiddle with this in the mean time.

    Many thanks,

    Shaun
    Thanks everyone.

    Milton - I've been looking at the NFS option as I thought this is what I need to do.
    I'm trying to figure out how to setup NFS, so hopefully I'll be able to test something today.

    Shaun
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    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 23 April 2008]

    Hi,

    Consider this if you would please.

    I have a customer running on unix in location A.
    There is another site again running on unix in location B.

    Following query has been asked.
    Telesales people in location A would like to see stock availability in location B in real time and vise versa.
    Basically if they call up a products details in location A showing their stock availability they'd like to see the same product's details in location B

    Networking isn't an issue as such as both sites can be made "see" each other.

    I'd originally thought about using C$COPY to copy the file from B to A using a mapped drive etc then just read it, but the file is too big in location A for copying to work.

    Any ideas or thoughts as to what you'd do?

    I know/think we could probably go down the acuserver route, but the cost would probably make it prohibitive

    Samba is running on both the unix servers if that makes any difference?
    I'm going off to read about samba now.
    EDIT:
    I just thought that I should be able to map a network drive to the data folder and open the file on the client using @DISPLAY.
    I'll have a fiddle with this in the mean time.

    Many thanks,

    Shaun
    Hi,
    another solution is: in server on location A you can mount the folder of server B where data are. Than you've only to address that path in applications used on location A. I don't know exactly how can be done (it's a Unix systemist's work to be done) but we used this on a thin installation share files over 2 different servers, you just need location B server must have a fixed and accessible IP address so location A server can connect and mount it at startup.
    hope this helps,
    bye Giovanni.
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    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 23 April 2008]

    Hi,

    Consider this if you would please.

    I have a customer running on unix in location A.
    There is another site again running on unix in location B.

    Following query has been asked.
    Telesales people in location A would like to see stock availability in location B in real time and vise versa.
    Basically if they call up a products details in location A showing their stock availability they'd like to see the same product's details in location B

    Networking isn't an issue as such as both sites can be made "see" each other.

    I'd originally thought about using C$COPY to copy the file from B to A using a mapped drive etc then just read it, but the file is too big in location A for copying to work.

    Any ideas or thoughts as to what you'd do?

    I know/think we could probably go down the acuserver route, but the cost would probably make it prohibitive

    Samba is running on both the unix servers if that makes any difference?
    I'm going off to read about samba now.
    EDIT:
    I just thought that I should be able to map a network drive to the data folder and open the file on the client using @DISPLAY.
    I'll have a fiddle with this in the mean time.

    Many thanks,

    Shaun
    [QUOTE=giovanni;5468]I don't know exactly how can be done (it's a Unix systemist's work to be done)
    That'll be us too then :D

    Seems like a really simple request to me, but alas not.

    Thanks,

    Shaun
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    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 23 April 2008]

    Hi,

    Consider this if you would please.

    I have a customer running on unix in location A.
    There is another site again running on unix in location B.

    Following query has been asked.
    Telesales people in location A would like to see stock availability in location B in real time and vise versa.
    Basically if they call up a products details in location A showing their stock availability they'd like to see the same product's details in location B

    Networking isn't an issue as such as both sites can be made "see" each other.

    I'd originally thought about using C$COPY to copy the file from B to A using a mapped drive etc then just read it, but the file is too big in location A for copying to work.

    Any ideas or thoughts as to what you'd do?

    I know/think we could probably go down the acuserver route, but the cost would probably make it prohibitive

    Samba is running on both the unix servers if that makes any difference?
    I'm going off to read about samba now.
    EDIT:
    I just thought that I should be able to map a network drive to the data folder and open the file on the client using @DISPLAY.
    I'll have a fiddle with this in the mean time.

    Many thanks,

    Shaun
    NFS allows you to mount the drive from B onto A server.

    Exporting and mounting exported drives isn't dificult just different on each flavor of Unix. If you need more info feel free to email me at milton@mcs-medical.com
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    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 23 April 2008]

    Hi,

    Consider this if you would please.

    I have a customer running on unix in location A.
    There is another site again running on unix in location B.

    Following query has been asked.
    Telesales people in location A would like to see stock availability in location B in real time and vise versa.
    Basically if they call up a products details in location A showing their stock availability they'd like to see the same product's details in location B

    Networking isn't an issue as such as both sites can be made "see" each other.

    I'd originally thought about using C$COPY to copy the file from B to A using a mapped drive etc then just read it, but the file is too big in location A for copying to work.

    Any ideas or thoughts as to what you'd do?

    I know/think we could probably go down the acuserver route, but the cost would probably make it prohibitive

    Samba is running on both the unix servers if that makes any difference?
    I'm going off to read about samba now.
    EDIT:
    I just thought that I should be able to map a network drive to the data folder and open the file on the client using @DISPLAY.
    I'll have a fiddle with this in the mean time.

    Many thanks,

    Shaun
    NFS allows you to mount the drive from B onto A server.

    Exporting and mounting exported drives isn't dificult just different on each flavor of Unix. If you need more info feel free to email me at milton@mcs-medical.com

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