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application sharing in windows 2000

I have a question.  Is it possible to share an application from a server?  Meaning install it on a server, and have people run that program from the server?  Can this be done in Windows 2000 server?
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Basically, what you are talking about is Client/server applications, which come in a number of flavours. The most versatile environment is the one mentioned by PeteLong above: the Terminal Server, which is also te only global solution (you can take any single user-application and turn it into a virtual Client/server application.

But a lot of other special solutions are available. the two most welknown are probably the server-side executed webapplications and the mail server in form of either some IMAP-server or a full Exchange server.  In such applications the user makes some request which the server will process and the user will then only receive the result.

Do you have some specific requirements ?
CITRIX is a more robust solution, if you don't mind paying for it.
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