Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 02/01/13 11:51

mbstevens wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:21:24 +0000, Advo wrote:
>
>> is that the only way? i didnt realise it would be that hard as such.
>>
>> Our servers at work support ASP, JS and HTML etc, not sure about PHP.
>>
>> Basically our intranet is a html page with a few hyperlinks, then we
>> have say a hyperlink to Excel
>>
>> It was so the user can click Excel, which should just run the file
>> similar to: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Excel.exe etc
>
> You may be able to do certain limited things with Excel from its command
> line. But if you want the user to be able to actually interact with Excel
> or Office in the _usual_ way, and from a remote machine, you need more
> than an web server.
>


Or a shared folder Form Windows to Windows. Check you licensing
agreements with Ol' MS if you want to run as an Apps Server...We do one
a public library server that I manage, but the SW was purchased with
such a license.

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Take care,

Jonathan
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