Installing the cached client from a LAN or DVD

You can now have some or all of your users initially download the cached client from a LAN drive or a DVD. To install the cached client, the user has to access the LAN drive or DVD only once. After the installation, the user connects to the Host On-Demand server in the usual way.

The advantages of this method are that the cached client components are installed on the user's workstation more quickly than they would be if they had to be downloaded from the Web server, and that the user is not placing an additional load on the Web server by downloading an entire set of cached client components.

This method is supported on most client platforms. However, several Java cached clients do not support this feature. The Java cached clients that do not support this feature are listed in Limits of support.