Multimedia Project on a school server question

[Mark MacKenzie]

Yes this helps a lot.  It pretty much bears out what I had thought would 
be the case but also hoped would be the case.

It looks as if checking the shell for number of open instances is 
something I will look into as well.

Great!  Thanks for the fast help.

Mark

Mark Talluto wrote:

>
> On Apr 12, 2004, at 12:58 PM, Mark MacKenzie wrote:
>
>>
>> I have not designed or produced for this before.  Can a standard Rev 
>> project be simply put on their server and used by from 30 to 35 kids 
>> at the same time?
>
> A standalone can be run off a server by almost any number of client 
> computers.  The key factor would be memory in the server.
>
>>
>> If not, what needs to be done to make this possible?
>
> Just make a standalone for the server.  You need have your clients 
> access the server as they would normally to get files.  Have them 
> double-click on the app.  I think an alias would work as well on the 
> clients as well.
>
>>
>> If yes, can the number of concurrent sessions be limited to say 35?
>
> Not sure about this.  You might try looking using shell to see how 
> many instances of the app running there are.
>
>>
>> Has anyone done this before and care to share their experiences?
>
> I have written standalones that are being used in server environments 
> as you describe.  They are not controlling how many users though.
>
> Hope this helps some.
>