Using NAS for connecting sites

arry_veins

Hi all -

I am new to navision. My requirement is my head office has a setup of navision proprietory database and few clients. My branch offices need to connect to the head office. My Q is:

1. what wud be the setup architecture? do i need to setup NAS in the headoffice?

2. If I dial thru citrix metaframes from the branch offices, will I be able to get to the head office and use the database?

3. If I want a browser based solution, what else do I need to do? (commerce server, commerce portal?)

4. And if I have a client in one pc, and a server in another in the same LAN, how do I check that the client is talking to the server ( I mean do I use posting or something similar???)

If anyone can walk me through - that would be very helpful!!! O:)

Thanks in advance.

DenSter

NAS is not meant for this requirement, and the web interface is not sophisticated enough yet to do this either. Navision remote access is best handled through Citrix or TS.

arry_veins

Thanks - with the browser based solution ( i understand) its in its nascent stage - can u please explain the setup>?

and in which scenario wud we need to setup the NAS? its not clear... appreciate a reply.

kriki

arry_veins wrote:

Thanks - with the browser based solution ( i understand) its in its nascent stage - can u please explain the setup>?

and in which scenario wud we need to setup the NAS? its not clear... appreciate a reply.

NAS is usefull in cases when you have to import/export/process data on a regular basis and you don't want to assign a user to do it (that user can do other things). In this case you could install a NAS that regularly checks if data has to be imported/exported/processed.
In short the NAS is a batchserver. It behaves like a client but without the user interface.

DenSter

Well.... close but not quite. NAS is not just a batchserver. It is probably what many installations of NAS is used for, but what it really is is an unattended client session (without a user interface Kriki 8) ). You can use it for anything that a regular client session can do, except for running dataports. Because there is no userinterface, you will have to program a process that does things automatically, so this would be an event driven process, like a message queue monitor, or a timer object that checks something every so many minutes. It is also used to communicate between the web front end and the Navision server. You can read all about NAS in a document called "w1w1atas.pdf" in the Doc folder on your product cd.

You can read all about the web interface in the Employee Portal documentation. I only have an ISO image of the SP1 disk on my computer, but the documentation is probably in the same Doc folder. This will explain the setup to you.

arry_veins

Ok - cool Daniel!! thanks much..