Where does an application execute?

[papashex]

A friend has a small network with an application installed to a server (win 2k3) PC. The workstations simply have a desktop shortcut to the application.exe on the server.

When the workstation runs the application does it execute in the server memory and send only video data to the workstations or does it execute entirely in the workstation?

I am unable to check individual system resource use due to location and friend is techno-phobe. I'm not sure I could distinguish data execution on server from data transmission to workstation anyway.

Thanks for the help.

[bj-kaiser]

If you dont use a terminal setup of any sort (be it MS RDP, Citrix, VNC, whatever), but a share or mapped drive, the application will be loaded from the share and executed on the workstation.

[papashex]

Thanks for the quick reply!