# Connecting to a remote environment

**URL:** <https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/connecting-to-a-remote-environment/79434>\
**Category:** Forum\
**Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Natural, Natural-on-Linux, Natural-Installation-and-Setup-on-Open-Systems, Natural-on-Windows-Unix\
**Created:** [November 7, 2008, 9:52pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/connecting-to-a-remote-environment/79434 "2008-11-07T21:52:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![David\_Doubell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@David\_Doubell](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/David_Doubell)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 9:52pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/connecting-to-a-remote-environment/79434/1 "2008-11-07T21:52:26Z")

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When selecting Tools/Map my Environment and Application options are greyed out. When selecting Customize, it highlights it but does not apply it when I close the window.  
How can I get it to remain active?  
Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Ralph\_Zbrog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/ralph_zbrog/32/78_2.png) [@Ralph\_Zbrog](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Ralph_Zbrog)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 12:37am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/connecting-to-a-remote-environment/79434/2 "2008-11-08T00:37:28Z")

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Sounds as though the SPoD option was not selected during installation.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 2:51pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/connecting-to-a-remote-environment/79434/3 "2021-04-02T14:51:07Z")

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