AnzioWin and Anzio Lite work well with terminal servers and in running them from file servers. However, do remember that AnzioWin and Anzio Lite licenses are on a per PC user. On a file server or terminal server this refers to the number of nodes that will have access to the server.
In order to set AnzioWin or Anzio Lite up to run from the server, install the product on the server and permit access to the users. That's it! Well almost. Two things that may be a headache:
- Anzio looks for its default file, called AnzioWin.def, within the Anzio program's home directory. You can set every user up to use this default file by simply saving it as you'd like and then marking the file as "read-only" so not everyone can change it and affect others. OR you can set up individual anziowin.def files in user directories and when you create the shortcut, include the file name (see 3 below).
- Anzio requires a registration/activation license code in order to run. You can purchase individual licenses for each user, one quantity license to share among each user, or you can install the license on the server (saving from having to enter it for each user). If you wish to do this last option, give us a call and we can let you know how to do set it up for a server.
- You do need to create the shortcuts on each users desktop. With most server software, you can do this easily. If you need to give each user access to their own default file, it may take a little more work. A shortcut can point to individual default files by doing
<executable name> <default file name>
such as
f:\anzio126\anzio32r.exe $UserHomeDir\anziowin.def