Hi All,

Ay I have two servers (Server A and Server B) on the other side of a WAN
link. If I copy a file contained on Server A to Server B does the contents
get transmitted across the WAN or is the command smart enough to copy
directly from server A to server B.

Thanks

Bob

From a workstation, if you have two mapped drives (one to server A and one
to server B) and try to copy the files from one share to another data will
cross the WAN both ways.

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"Bob_M" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi All,
>
> Ay I have two servers (Server A and Server B) on the other side of a WAN
> link. If I copy a file contained on Server A to Server B does the
contents
> get transmitted across the WAN or is the command smart enough to copy
> directly from server A to server B.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bob
>
>

>try to copy the files from one share to another data will
cross the WAN both ways.<

That is my exact situation. Is there anyway around this.

thanks

Bob

Use Terminal Services in Admin Mode to remote control the one server and
copy the files to the other.

There are command-line options available too - enable the Telnet server on
the servers or look at PSExec from Sysinternals.

"Bob_M" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi All,
>
> Ay I have two servers (Server A and Server B) on the other side of a WAN
> link. If I copy a file contained on Server A to Server B does the
contents
> get transmitted across the WAN or is the command smart enough to copy
> directly from server A to server B.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bob
>
>