accessing other servers

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

Hi

At my department we have various servers dedicated to computing. I want 
to setup ESS so that whenever I use eg. SAS (but also R) I run it on a 
different server than the one I'm using Emacs on. My first thought 
(which is probably not the smartest) is to redifine the sas command to 
something like "ssh server sas" (or whatever the syntax specifically 
is).

There must be other people who have attacked this problem. What is the 
canonical approach (using Linux btw. and accessing a combination of 
Linux and Solaris servers).

/Kasper Daniel Hansen