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ekaraim
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‎09-07-2001 03:17 AM
‎09-07-2001 03:17 AM

Bulletin Board

I did a 5 user Acad 2002 network install using the "client" option. Everything works okay except for the Bulletin Board. It comes up with an error saying that the file cannot be found. The path it's coming up with is incorrect. I've disabled today for now, but I'd like to know how to change the path on the client machine to point to the right file. There is no "edit" option to change the path, as it was hardcoded in the install.

Thanks,

Erin
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Anonymous
in reply to: ekaraim
‎09-07-2001 04:02 AM
‎09-07-2001 04:02 AM

Are you comfortable in the registry?  Don't
try this if you are not:

 

but, you can change the path to the today bulleting
board by editing:

 


size=2>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\AutoCAD\r15.0\ACAD12:409\TodayCMC\Today_CMCUrl

 

ACAD12:409 refers to ADT3.3, so it would be
something different (I don't know what) in vanilla AutoCAD.

 

Apparently, the Today bulletin board must be on a
mapped drive, you cannot use a UNC path, or an HTTP URL.  Why, I don't
know, it seems stupid to me that you cannot, and I am hoping that someone can
tell me that I am wrong about this.

 

Please don't try this if you have not backed up
your registry, and are not comfortable editing it.  While I am comfortable
taking risks with my own machine, I'd feel really bad if my suggestion lead to
problems with yours.

 

 


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
I
did a 5 user Acad 2002 network install using the "client" option. Everything
works okay except for the Bulletin Board. It comes up with an error saying
that the file cannot be found. The path it's coming up with is incorrect. I've
disabled today for now, but I'd like to know how to change the path on the
client machine to point to the right file. There is no "edit" option to change
the path, as it was hardcoded in the install.

Thanks,

Erin

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Anonymous
in reply to: ekaraim
‎09-07-2001 04:37 AM
‎09-07-2001 04:37 AM

Hello,

 

Actually you can use a UNC path, but not an HTTP
path.   What makes this confusing is that when you go to create the
deployments the CMC (CAD Manager Control) comes up and you don't know what to
put there.  By the time you figure it out, you have created your deployment
and it is probably pointing to something on your local drive.   But...
that will not be available to your other stations after they run the
deployments.    So what is a good idea is to create a directory
on a SERVER.   I like to put this in the same directory that I put my
deployments.

 


 

I create my own htm or html page and put it in this
path...

 


 

Then when I run the deployment, I point to the htm
or html file at this location.

 


 

Now I have my CAD stations run SETUP.EXE to
install.  Say mid week I want to add a note to the htm file, I add
it.  Next time the CAD drafter logs in, he will see the change.  

 

You can also fix this in your deployments but it
will only change for newer installs.  For the people that have already
installed you would need to edit the registry to fix this.  To fix the
deployment you need to edit CMC.DAT.  You will find it in the support
directory under IMAGE.  For example.

 


       
               
               
               
    CMC.DAT

 

 

We are looking at how to change this for future
releases.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Bud Schroeder

Autodesk Inc.

Test Development


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

Are you comfortable in the registry?  Don't
try this if you are not:

 

but, you can change the path to the today
bulleting board by editing:

 


size=2>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\AutoCAD\r15.0\ACAD12:409\TodayCMC\Today_CMCUrl

 

ACAD12:409 refers to ADT3.3, so it would be
something different (I don't know what) in vanilla AutoCAD.

 

Apparently, the Today bulletin board must be on a
mapped drive, you cannot use a UNC path, or an HTTP URL.  Why, I don't
know, it seems stupid to me that you cannot, and I am hoping that someone can
tell me that I am wrong about this.

 

Please don't try this if you have not backed up
your registry, and are not comfortable editing it.  While I am
comfortable taking risks with my own machine, I'd feel really bad if my
suggestion lead to problems with yours.

 

 


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
I
did a 5 user Acad 2002 network install using the "client" option. Everything
works okay except for the Bulletin Board. It comes up with an error saying
that the file cannot be found. The path it's coming up with is incorrect.
I've disabled today for now, but I'd like to know how to change the path on
the client machine to point to the right file. There is no "edit" option to
change the path, as it was hardcoded in the install.

Thanks,

Erin

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Anonymous
in reply to: ekaraim
‎09-07-2001 04:39 AM
‎09-07-2001 04:39 AM

Like so many things abouth te network licensing, it
all seems to have been created solely as a means of license control.  Which
is ok, but if you are going to have all the clients in contact with a server
anyway, why not take it that one step further, and make it a network managed
installation, not just network licensed.

 

To me, this is an example of software written by
people who don't have any experience using it to actually get work
done.


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

Hello,

 

Actually you can use a UNC path, but not an HTTP
path.   What makes this confusing is that when you go to create the
deployments the CMC (CAD Manager Control) comes up and you don't know what to
put there.  By the time you figure it out, you have created your
deployment and it is probably pointing to something on your local
drive.   But... that will not be available to your other stations
after they run the deployments.    So what is a good idea is to
create a directory on a SERVER.   I like to put this in the same
directory that I put my deployments.

 


 

I create my own htm or html page and put it in
this path...

 


 

Then when I run the deployment, I point to the
htm or html file at this location.

 


 

Now I have my CAD stations run SETUP.EXE to
install.  Say mid week I want to add a note to the htm file, I add
it.  Next time the CAD drafter logs in, he will see the
change.  

 

You can also fix this in your deployments but it
will only change for newer installs.  For the people that have already
installed you would need to edit the registry to fix this.  To fix the
deployment you need to edit CMC.DAT.  You will find it in the support
directory under IMAGE.  For example.

 


       
               
               
               
    CMC.DAT

 

 

We are looking at how to change this for future
releases.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Bud Schroeder

Autodesk Inc.

Test Development


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

Are you comfortable in the registry? 
Don't try this if you are not:

 

but, you can change the path to the today
bulleting board by editing:

 


size=2>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\AutoCAD\r15.0\ACAD12:409\TodayCMC\Today_CMCUrl

 

ACAD12:409 refers to ADT3.3, so it would be
something different (I don't know what) in vanilla AutoCAD.

 

Apparently, the Today bulletin board must be on
a mapped drive, you cannot use a UNC path, or an HTTP URL.  Why, I
don't know, it seems stupid to me that you cannot, and I am hoping that
someone can tell me that I am wrong about this.

 

Please don't try this if you have not backed up
your registry, and are not comfortable editing it.  While I am
comfortable taking risks with my own machine, I'd feel really bad if my
suggestion lead to problems with yours.

 

 


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
I
did a 5 user Acad 2002 network install using the "client" option.
Everything works okay except for the Bulletin Board. It comes up with an
error saying that the file cannot be found. The path it's coming up with
is incorrect. I've disabled today for now, but I'd like to know how to
change the path on the client machine to point to the right file. There is
no "edit" option to change the path, as it was hardcoded in the install.

Thanks,

Erin

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ekaraim
Enthusiast
in reply to: ekaraim
‎09-07-2001 05:06 AM
‎09-07-2001 05:06 AM

Thanks,

Bud, I did follow the steps you suggested on the install, but it did not work as I expected it to. I will try the editing of the registry, thanks to both of you for your help.

Erin
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Anonymous
in reply to: ekaraim
‎09-07-2001 08:33 AM
‎09-07-2001 08:33 AM

Hi Charles,

 

I spent over 14 years using AutoCAD.  Started
in 2.6.   There are a lot of users just like me that work on
AutoCAD.    But if you have some ideas, please pass them my
way.  I am more then happy to pass them by the teams.

 

Take care.

 

Bud Schroeder

Autodesk Inc.

Test Development.

 

 



style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
Like so many things abouth te network licensing,
it all seems to have been created solely as a means of license control. 
Which is ok, but if you are going to have all the clients in contact with a
server anyway, why not take it that one step further, and make it a network
managed installation, not just network licensed.

 

To me, this is an example of software written by
people who don't have any experience using it to actually get work
done.


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

Hello,

 

Actually you can use a UNC path, but not an
HTTP path.   What makes this confusing is that when you go to
create the deployments the CMC (CAD Manager Control) comes up and you don't
know what to put there.  By the time you figure it out, you have
created your deployment and it is probably pointing to something on your
local drive.   But... that will not be available to your other
stations after they run the deployments.    So what is a good
idea is to create a directory on a SERVER.   I like to put this in
the same directory that I put my deployments.

 


 

I create my own htm or html page and put it in
this path...

 


 

Then when I run the deployment, I point to the
htm or html file at this location.

 


 

Now I have my CAD stations run SETUP.EXE to
install.  Say mid week I want to add a note to the htm file, I add
it.  Next time the CAD drafter logs in, he will see the
change.  

 

You can also fix this in your deployments but
it will only change for newer installs.  For the people that have
already installed you would need to edit the registry to fix this.  To
fix the deployment you need to edit CMC.DAT.  You will find it in the
support directory under IMAGE.  For example.

 


       
               
               
               
    CMC.DAT

 

 

We are looking at how to change this for future
releases.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Bud Schroeder

Autodesk Inc.

Test Development


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

Are you comfortable in the registry? 
Don't try this if you are not:

 

but, you can change the path to the today
bulleting board by editing:

 


size=2>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\AutoCAD\r15.0\ACAD12:409\TodayCMC\Today_CMCUrl

 

ACAD12:409 refers to ADT3.3, so it would be
something different (I don't know what) in vanilla AutoCAD.

 

Apparently, the Today bulletin board must be
on a mapped drive, you cannot use a UNC path, or an HTTP URL.  Why, I
don't know, it seems stupid to me that you cannot, and I am hoping that
someone can tell me that I am wrong about this.

 

Please don't try this if you have not backed
up your registry, and are not comfortable editing it.  While I am
comfortable taking risks with my own machine, I'd feel really bad if my
suggestion lead to problems with yours.

 

 


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
I
did a 5 user Acad 2002 network install using the "client" option.
Everything works okay except for the Bulletin Board. It comes up with an
error saying that the file cannot be found. The path it's coming up with
is incorrect. I've disabled today for now, but I'd like to know how to
change the path on the client machine to point to the right file. There
is no "edit" option to change the path, as it was hardcoded in the
install.

Thanks,

Erin

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Message 7 of 8
Anonymous
in reply to: ekaraim
‎09-07-2001 08:34 AM
‎09-07-2001 08:34 AM

Hi Erin,

 

Let me know how it goes and I will try to help you
out if I can.  Also if you let me know your steps, I can take a look at it
to see if I can spot what is going wrong.

 

Thanks

 

Bud Schroeder

Autodesk Inc.

Test Development.


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
Thanks,

Bud, I did follow the steps you suggested on the install, but it did not
work as I expected it to. I will try the editing of the registry, thanks to
both of you for your help.

Erin

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Anonymous
in reply to: ekaraim
‎09-09-2001 09:47 PM
‎09-09-2001 09:47 PM

You know, I really didn't mean to be rude.  In
fact, I had the pleasure of going up to New Hampshire once, and meeting the ADT
design team (well, most of it, I've never met Jim Awe, and I heard a few other
names tossed around that didn't mathc up with any of the faces in the
room).  And the bulk of that team had not only worked on AutoCAD, but had
even worked in the AEC field.  But, then they intrioduced us to the guys
that wrote the program (as opposed to designing it).  So maybe somehting
just gets lost when the program design is passed along to the actual
programmers.  Or maybe my way of thinking about this is just way out in
left field.  But I have been finding this particular issue very
frustrating.

 

Anyway, I'll try to sketch out my thoughts over the
next few days, and post them here, so that others can add their comments, or
improvements.  I have, in fact, already posted some thoughts inthe ADT wish
list.


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

Hi Charles,

 

I spent over 14 years using AutoCAD. 
Started in 2.6.   There are a lot of users just like me that work on
AutoCAD.    But if you have some ideas, please pass them my
way.  I am more then happy to pass them by the teams.

 

Take care.

 

Bud Schroeder

Autodesk Inc.

Test Development.

 

 



style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
Like so many things abouth te network
licensing, it all seems to have been created solely as a means of license
control.  Which is ok, but if you are going to have all the clients in
contact with a server anyway, why not take it that one step further, and
make it a network managed installation, not just network
licensed.

 

To me, this is an example of software written
by people who don't have any experience using it to actually get work
done.


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

Hello,

 

Actually you can use a UNC path, but not an
HTTP path.   What makes this confusing is that when you go to
create the deployments the CMC (CAD Manager Control) comes up and you
don't know what to put there.  By the time you figure it out, you
have created your deployment and it is probably pointing to something on
your local drive.   But... that will not be available to your
other stations after they run the deployments.    So what
is a good idea is to create a directory on a SERVER.   I like to
put this in the same directory that I put my deployments.

 


 

I create my own htm or html page and put it
in this path...

 


 

Then when I run the deployment, I point to
the htm or html file at this location.

 


 

Now I have my CAD stations run SETUP.EXE to
install.  Say mid week I want to add a note to the htm file, I add
it.  Next time the CAD drafter logs in, he will see the
change.  

 

You can also fix this in your deployments but
it will only change for newer installs.  For the people that have
already installed you would need to edit the registry to fix this. 
To fix the deployment you need to edit CMC.DAT.  You will find it in
the support directory under IMAGE.  For example.

 


       
           
           
           
           
    CMC.DAT

 

 

We are looking at how to change this for
future releases.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Bud Schroeder

Autodesk Inc.

Test Development


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

Are you comfortable in the registry? 
Don't try this if you are not:

 

but, you can change the path to the today
bulleting board by editing:

 


size=2>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\AutoCAD\r15.0\ACAD12:409\TodayCMC\Today_CMCUrl

 

ACAD12:409 refers to ADT3.3, so it would be
something different (I don't know what) in vanilla AutoCAD.

 

Apparently, the Today bulletin board must
be on a mapped drive, you cannot use a UNC path, or an HTTP URL. 
Why, I don't know, it seems stupid to me that you cannot, and I am
hoping that someone can tell me that I am wrong about this.

 

Please don't try this if you have not
backed up your registry, and are not comfortable editing it.  While
I am comfortable taking risks with my own machine, I'd feel really bad
if my suggestion lead to problems with yours.

 

 


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
I
did a 5 user Acad 2002 network install using the "client" option.
Everything works okay except for the Bulletin Board. It comes up with
an error saying that the file cannot be found. The path it's coming up
with is incorrect. I've disabled today for now, but I'd like to know
how to change the path on the client machine to point to the right
file. There is no "edit" option to change the path, as it was
hardcoded in the install.

Thanks,

Erin

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