I just tried to open a 45MB file from a remote disk and this works ok. Second test with an 85MB file failed.
The best thing to do (imho) is let the script that gathers the info copy the file to one central point and run the script that query’s the files on the system the files are stored on.
Opening large files over the network causes lots of traffic. Copying causes the same traffic but the copy process only has to run once for each info gathering action. If possible you can schedule this at a time that network traffic is low. When the copy action is done you can query the file as much as you want without causing huge amounts of network traffic and slowing down all other regular network traffic.
Edited by Mart (2006-08-03 11:48 AM)
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