Recently I was set up with a system without the correct SAP systems on my ‘logon pad’. This made it a little hard to access the systems I needed but here is the tip.
Use the sapgui.exe application to access the system you need.
Simply (from windows) hit the start button and then ‘Run’ and then type:
sapgui [appserver-domain] [system number]
If you add the switch /WAN it will treat it as a low speed connection.
One of the benefits of this is that it doesn’t start the SAP Logon application which will save you about 20M of memory. The downside is you don’t get the application in your tray that shows all the systems you are logged on to when you right click it.
More information here [SAP Service Marketplace link - credentials required]
Depending on how long you are going to keep doing this (or if you don’t want to start the logon pad), you can make this a shortcut and sit it on your desktop.
In fact, depending on which version of the SAP GUI you have installed, you may even be able to right click on your desktop and select “SAP GUI Shortcut”, EDIT the shortcut (don’t change the properties), and create a shortcut to your system
Good point Martin, the original problem I had was that due to permissions my sap*ini files kept getting deleted when I logged into my computer.
A longer term solution suggested by another colleague was to set the target of the shortcut to the location of the saplogon.ini. Then I could put the files in a location that wasn’t going to get deleted.
There is a command line switch for this too.
Cheers,
Nigel