PDMWorks Vault on Windows XP Pro

Hi,

We're looking on implementing PDMWorks. The vault will be on a dedicated
machine, doing nothing else. The docs says that it can be installed on
Windows XP or Server 2000 or Server 2003. There's a big difference in cost.
Is there some notable performance difference?
We're about 8 SolidWorks users.

Thanks,
Conj

 

works fine on a xp pro box.

if history carries over (from nt workstation & w2k pro), you will be limited
to 10 clients being able to connect simultaneously to xp box.

 

Currently there is a problem with server2003 & pdmworks - Somthing with the
way the 2003 manages files. However XPpro should be just fine.

Steve Tietz

 

Hi,
I found:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314882
But it looks like PDMWorks doesn't keep the connection alive very long so it
shouldn't be a problem. If we don't get 10 users requesting something at the
same time...

Thanks,
Conj

 

Steve,
We are in the middle of deploying PDMWorks 2004 on Server 2003 - can
you elaborate on what the issues are?

Regards,
Marc

 

sure... Here is a cut & paste of the alert from solidworks corporate:

Technical Support Alert: PDMWorks performance problems on Windows Server
2003 machines
Due to a problem with Windows Server 2003, customers using this Operating
System for their PDMWorks vault may be experiencing some performance
problems. Typical symptoms are excessive time to login to the vault and take
ownership of files, as well as high CPU usage on the server. This problem
has been resolved with a hot fix from Microsoft, which can be downloaded
from Microsoft's web site: Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 831168