Running SPSS remotely from a network drive?
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I have been asked to ‘try out’ attempting to using SPSS (currently installed on my work computer’s C drive with I believe a site license) from a network drive that is accessed from a different location. Both are state network drives my work location and a different department/building. The suggestion is to copy or install SPSS to my personal network drive on my work computer – which I can ‘see’ from the other department’s computer. Then finding the .exe file on my work network drive FROM that other department’s computer and running SPSS from there. Is this even possible? Is it worth it to ‘try it out’? (does my description make any sense?) Thanks for any feedback! Melissa -------------- Melissa Ives UCONN/DMHAS Research Division 410 Capitol Ave., MS #14RSD Hartford, CT 06106 860-418-6729 (phone) 860-778-5445 (cell) 860-418-6692 (fax) This correspondence contains proprietary information some or all of which may be legally privileged; it is for the intended recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disclose, distribute, copy, print, or rely on this correspondence and completely dispose of the correspondence immediately. Please notify the sender if you have received this email in error. NOTE: Messages to or from the State of Connecticut domain may be subject to the Freedom of Information statutes and regulations. ===================== To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to [hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the command. To leave the list, send the command SIGNOFF SPSSX-L For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command INFO REFCARD |
Re: Running SPSS remotely from a network drive?
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Don't quote me on this but if what you are trying to achieve is accessing SPSS from different machines (irrespective of location, is irrelevant, other than the access of working files) then a single user licence (or site licence?) allows you to install SPSS on different machines, provided it is being used by the same single user. Like I said, don't quote me on this, you would need to check licence agreement with IBM SPSS, of this fact. If however, you are wanting to have multiple different users connect to SPSS from either the same machine or different machines then it maybe the server licencing option that you may favour. Which allows SPSS to be installed on as many machines as you desire but only a certain amount (depending on what have paid for) concurrent users to have access to SPSS? On 17 February 2016 at 16:25, Ives, Melissa L <[hidden email]> wrote:
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The question might stem from other needs than ours, but I think Jignesh’s comment on the server licensing option seems both relevant and correct.
I’d just like to add that we are quite happy with the server license. We have got fairly many users spread over a geographically vast area and a number of sites, and even though the license covers a limited number of concurrent users, it’s usually more than
enough. There is one situation where the setup is not that good, and that’s in training sessions. On those occasions I can only run a few computers (the
number of concurrent users allowed), and during those sessions, the system is blocked for everyone else. But for everyday use, the system is flexible and runs smoothly. This is something I believe IBM should look into: the possibility to run temporary training
sessions with a number of computers active without having to use the server licenses. I could also add some comments about the cost, but that’s sufficiently off topic here to refrain from doing so. The organization I work in is a regional council, responsible for almost all the health care in the region, about 7 000 employees. Quite a few
of the staff are active in research projects where most use SPSS. Robert Från: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]]
För Jignesh Sutar Don't quote me on this but if what you are trying to achieve is accessing SPSS from different machines (irrespective of location, is irrelevant, other than the access of working files) then a single user licence (or site licence?) allows
you to install SPSS on different machines, provided it is being used by the same single user. Like I said, don't quote me on this, you would need to check licence agreement with IBM SPSS, of this fact. If however, you are wanting to have multiple different users connect to SPSS from either the same machine or different machines then it maybe the server licencing option that you may favour. Which allows SPSS to be installed on as many
machines as you desire but only a certain amount (depending on what have paid for) concurrent users to have access to SPSS? On 17 February 2016 at 16:25, Ives, Melissa L <[hidden email]> wrote: I have been asked to ‘try out’ attempting to using SPSS (currently installed on my work computer’s C drive with I believe a site license) from a network drive
that is accessed from a different location. Both are state network drives my work location and a different department/building. The suggestion is to copy or install SPSS to my personal network drive on my work computer – which I can ‘see’ from the other department’s computer. Then finding the .exe file on my work network drive FROM that other department’s computer and running SPSS from there. Is this even possible? Is it worth it to ‘try it out’? (does my description make any sense?) Thanks for any feedback! Melissa -------------- Melissa Ives UCONN/DMHAS Research Division 410 Capitol Ave., MS #14RSD Hartford, CT 06106 860-418-6729 (phone) 860-778-5445 (cell) 860-418-6692 (fax)
===================== To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to
[hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the command. To leave the list, send the command SIGNOFF SPSSX-L For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command
INFO REFCARD ===================== To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to
[hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the command. To leave the list, send the command SIGNOFF SPSSX-L For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command INFO REFCARD
Robert Lundqvist
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From my Windows based set up, I had set up my PC to allow remote access. (Accessories > Remote Desktop Connection.) When I moved locations temporarily I was able to run SPSS at my home base installation, from the remote location. It worked, but was slow and the graphics were poor. However, it was usable, and for short periods is just fine. Then I fell into a trap.
Working for an extended period at the alternative location I contacted our local help desk crew, and one of them obligingly set things up so that SPSS would load onto my PC where I was presently located. It actually installed on that second PC. (What I didn’t know was that SPSS recorded the 2nd installation.) A few months later when I moved to the alternative location, the original desk was occupied, but another workstation was made available to me. I logged into that PC and SPSS was soon available to me (and you guessed it, SPSS recorded my 3rd installation). As it happened I went back to my home base in due course and all was normal, until my PC was replaced (getting old) and the installation of SPSS on the new PC failed. Too many installations were recorded and it wasn’t going to happen again. Weeks went by with emails and phone calls between our ICT Service Centre and SPSS, and all the while I did not have a working installation. SPSS had assumed each installation must have been for different users. It took a lot of convincing for a 4th installation to be permitted. And very inconvenient in the mean time. |
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