On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 10:52:27 GMT, MPitkanen wrote:
>Hi,
>Does anyone know how to create Network Deployment image that DOES NOT use folders under user profile?
If you are using a local drive\folder (not under the user's Windows profile) you
can just copy the data as specified in the other posts, and reference that in
the NIW.
If, however, you wish to use a network location for such materials, which allows
for total user portability among machines, you must specify the UNC to the
folder locations. For this example, let's say you normally map J:\ to the
\\ServerName\ADT2005 share. You would use \\ServerName\ADT2003\[folder] instead
of J:\[Folder] when specifying locations for custom support/user files.
In the NIW docs it says something about using mapped drive letters, which
requires all users to use the same letters on their workstations. However, I've
found that using mapped drive letters when distributing software via GPOs causes
the installation to fail. This is because the GPO installation is pushed to the
machine, before the user logs on, and there is no mapped drive letter at that
point. The GPO installation reads the MST tranform file and coughs up a furball
when it hits that "J:\" drive.
So, if you go this route, use UNCs in the NIW deployment setup. Once you push
AutoCAD to a workstation via GPO, you can do two things. If you don't mind the
UNC paths in the Options dialog boxes, then you are fine.
If, however, you need mapped drive letters, then you can do this on a test
workstation:
1. Run REGEDIT, and do a FIND for all references to "\\Servername\ADT2005\"
2. Export all of those keys to separate REG files
3. Use Notepad to combine them into a single REG file
4. Do a Find/Replace and substitute "J:\" for "\\Servername\ADT2005\" and save.
5. Import the REG file.
We do this because we have multiple offices, each one referencing the same
mapped drive letter to a local server share.
Open AutoCAD and save this out to a standard profile which you can reference for
each user's desktop icon through the properties with the /P switch.
Matt
mstachoni@comcast.net
mstachoni@bhhtait.com
