Profiles and Networks

[apweng]

Perhaps someone can help out here. I'm writing on this on behalf of the University of British Columbia civil and mechanical engineering departments. They are having trouble with profiles and feel that Autodesk 2005 will not work for them. They are on 2002 now. They feel their hands are tied until Autodesk changes the way profiles are handles. I'm hoping someone can shed some light. Not looking for an exact solution but wondering if there are options. Thanks.

1.The computer lab is set up with a single mandatory profile structure - with each machine logging into it with a different user name i.e.: user1 logs onto machine1, user2 log onto machine2 etc.)- all though use the same mandatory profile. There are various important reasons to maintain this structure.

2. -Autodesk is set up so that if I configure things on machine one (user1) then ghost it to machine2 the program on that machine (machine2/user2) looks for files along the line of: C:\documents and settings\user1\local settings\autodesk
rather than the more typical way of looking in the user's (user2) profile in: local settings\autodesk. In other words it uses a more absolute path structure rather than a relative one.

3. -I was able to move all the files from the various places where the configuration looked for them in the profiles to a local folder structure such as C:\autodesk (for common files) and a writable area on the student drive as needed. I created vanilla profiles (within autodesk) as needed. On the Friday before classes started I managed to get the programs to come up looking like they should with no error messages - until I tried to select any item in the palettes (circle, line, furniture, etc) when it then errored out saying that the item was unregistered. By that time I had run out of options and had to go back and completely recreate the machines (with the older 2002 Autodesk products and all the changes for the new year) so that I deploy to the lab for the start of school.

Andrew

[Cy Shuster]

If you're using the standalone license, you can't Ghost one installation to
your PCs; you should have the network license for this.

Alternatively, you can use the Network Installation Wizard to deploy a
standalone image, and install the standalone license from that network
image. Check the documentation on the product CD; there's lots there.

If your lab PCs aren't networked, you'll have to do individual installs.

Note that restoring Ghost images will also force reauthorization, if you
plan to do this in future.

--Cy--

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Perhaps someone can help out here. I'm writing on this on behalf of the
University of British Columbia civil and mechanical engineering
departments. They are having trouble with profiles and feel that Autodesk
2005 will not work for them. They are on 2002 now. They feel their hands
are tied until Autodesk changes the way profiles are handles. I'm hoping
someone can shed some light. Not looking for an exact solution but
wondering if there are options. Thanks.

1.The computer lab is set up with a single mandatory profile structure -
with each machine logging into it with a different user name i.e.: user1
logs onto machine1, user2 log onto machine2 etc.)- all though use the same
mandatory profile. There are various important reasons to maintain this
structure.

2. -Autodesk is set up so that if I configure things on machine one
(user1) then ghost it to machine2 the program on that machine
(machine2/user2) looks for files along the line of: C:\documents and
settings\user1\local settings\autodesk
rather than the more typical way of looking in the user's (user2) profile
in: local settings\autodesk. In other words it uses a more absolute path
structure rather than a relative one.

3. -I was able to move all the files from the various places where the
configuration looked for them in the profiles to a local folder structure
such as C:\autodesk (for common files) and a writable area on the student
drive as needed. I created vanilla profiles (within autodesk) as needed.
On the Friday before classes started I managed to get the programs to come
up looking like they should with no error messages - until I tried to
select any item in the palettes (circle, line, furniture, etc) when it
then errored out saying that the item was unregistered. By that time I had
run out of options and had to go back and completely recreate the machines
(with the older 2002 Autodesk products and all the changes for the new
year) so that I deploy to the lab for the start of school.

Andrew

[apweng]

Thanks for the response.

Are any path / configuration settings stored in the system registry?

Andrew

[Lisa Pohlmeyer]

Yes, but if you are networked, you can redirect them to the server. We
have several common settings that are stored in different folders on the
server, so that everyone sees the same information.

--
Lisa Pohlmeyer
Sr. Designer
Huffcut & Associates, Inc.
LDD4 (hopefully upgrading soon)
Wk2 Pro
P4 3.2Ghz
2Gb RAM
ATI Radeon X800 Pro (256Mb)

apweng wrote:

Thanks for the response.

Are any path / configuration settings stored in the system registry?

Andrew