Mixing operating systems

[Mathis]

Hi,

are there good reasons NOT to mix operating systems in a SAC environment. I'm thinking of running the SAC server on XP and the laptop remotes on Win7. That would give me some more flexibility in using those laptops.
But if general consensus is that this would be bad advice I will dedicate laptops to SAC and install XP on them.

Thanks,
- Mathis

[cgrafx]

I haven't had any issues running my remote netbook on win7 and my core system on XP.

[Doug_Danforth]

I haven't had any issues running my remote netbook on win7 and my core system on XP.

Ditto. Our remotes are Win7 and the host is XP.


No issues in 2+ years but we are not heavy users.


Doug

[RBIngraham]

The only downside is the complexity of getting Win 7 to cooperate and network with XP properly in my experience. It always loves to assume that your network's purpose is to get you to the internet and getting that assumption to go away is a hassle.

[elcornell]

I have systems running with mixed OS (XP host / win 7 and xp remotes). As long as you properly deal with the networking it will work just fine.

[soundchicken]

win7 remote, xp remote, xp pro host here all playing well in the sandbox together.

[Brent Evans]

The only issue I've ever run into is file transfer speeds from a win 7 host to a XP remote were mediocre. There are/were some fixes for this, but it was never enough of a problem to track it down.

[Soundguy]

Not using SAC this way, but remember a bit of confusion putting new Win 7 laptop on a network with XP desktop and a Mac OS. Got it all worked out though.

Soundguy

[Mathis]

thank you, guys!