Using Office across the LAN

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I have two identially configured Vista Ultimate systems and planned to use
Office off one machine. When I try to run an Office app I get "The operating
system is not presently configured to run this application". MS Help suggests
talking to the administrator; that's me and I am stuck!

Please can anyone tell me how to run over the network.

 

[Malke]

I have two identially configured Vista Ultimate systems and planned to use
Office off one machine. When I try to run an Office app I get "The operating
system is not presently configured to run this application". MS Help suggests
talking to the administrator; that's me and I am stuck!

Please can anyone tell me how to run over the network.

I don't think Office programs are designed to run across the network.
However, MS Office isn't my area of expertise so I suggest you post in
one of the Office newsgroups where you'll get answers from the Office gurus.

List of public MS newsgroups:

http://aumha.org/nntp.htm

When you post there, make sure you include important information like
the version of Office, which Office programs, and whether the machines
are in a Workgroup or Domain.


Malke

 

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Thanks, Malke, I assumed it was a networking problem but will try the Office
group. Thanks for getting back so quickly

 

[Jeffrey Randow]

Since you are running Ultimate, you could remote desktop into the
other system and run it that way...

You would need to enable Remote Desktop (Control Panel -> System ->
Remote Access) and then use the Remote Desktop Connection client to
connect to the other Vista system.

 

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Jeffrey, I had thought of that, but was trying to avoid completely taking
over the other machine on which I am often executing long programs while
developing on the other. When I tried it it took over the screen and I did
not go beyond that. Thanks for the suggestion; I will try to run it and see
what it does to the host!

 

[Jeffrey Randow]

Non-MS solution here, but if you don't want to take over the
UI,consider something like UltraVNC.... It's like Remote Desktop, but
it doesn't lock the local machine...