Running Adobe products and QuarkXPress on terminal server

[Nadine]

Hi everyone, we're having a bit of a problem here in the office and I'm hoping someone can help me. I can't get an answer from Adobe and if you've ever tried to call Quark technical support you know how frustrated I'm getting. Here's the situation. Our company has just acquired a smaller company with it's own advertising department. We need to integrate both offices so that we can all work together on the same files. We're producing sales flyers, newspaper ads, posters, etc. We need to be able to all share the same file without the hassle of having to FTP everything whenever we want to use something. Security is a big issue here so that eliminates a couple of possible solutions. I was talking to our IT guy yesterday and his idea is to have them work on a terminal server which would enable us all to share the files. The only problem we're running into is that we can't seem to find out from anyone if Photoshop, Illustrator and QuarkXPRess will run on a terminal server. Anyone here had to work this way? Will it work? If not, do you have any other possible solutions? My knowledge of that side of things is pretty limited so I'm coming up dry on ideas.

[Allen Harkleroad]

Terminal services would be a bit of a problem in performance and possibly color range and color managment i would think. Almost all software will run on terminal services, just how fast is the question. I do a lot of remoting into our file server and web servers via terminal services and have no problems to date, i haven't tried graphics programs though via Terminal Services. Image viewers yes, but no professional design software. I would say give it a trial run and see what happens. Microsofts terminal services have a 120 day grace period before mandatory licensing is required all windows servers from NT 4 (w/ term services) up to windows 2003 server have built-in terminal services.