I recently posted something about this in the wish list NG - I would really
like to see the network licensed version evolve into a network managed
version. Feel free to add to, refine, improve, or otherwise develop the
comments I posted. If it evolves into a long threaad, with lots of voices
in support, perhps it will have more weight.
"jason martin" wrote in message
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> Well, you really can't, well you can, but only kinda. Here's what I
usually do.
>
> I install to a single client from the network deployment. I then go in
and set all of the
> stuff that I want set. Menu / Toolbar / PC3 files / CTB / STB / Startup
Suite / Search
> paths / Demand loading / whatever. Now I export the profile. In all of
our installs we
> use /p switches to specify profiles, so we simply copy the exported
profile to each users
> userconfig folder and change their acad shortcuts to use the /p switch
pointing to their
> profile. We had some trouble with this early on because each user had
their userconfig
> folder hard pathed into the autocad Icon (for example mine was /p
> "k:\usercfg\jam\adt.arg"). We've since started using the %username%
variable to get the
> path correct. Now our /p is "k:\usercfg\%username%\adt.arg" so that no
matter who logs in
> it resolves to their username.
>
> There have been others, much braver and smarter than me, that have been
working on
> modifying the .msi file that is created in the deployment. I've not heard
(in a while) if
> there has been any progress on that front.
>
> hth
>
> jason martin
> frankfurt-short-bruza
>
> "mkeith" wrote in message
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> > I am trying to set up the client for a network rollout of ACAD 2002.
Where can I
> customize the default settings for locations of the plotter files, menu
files, etc? I am
> wanting to do this to maintain all primary settings on the network as
opposed being
> located on the client machine. Can someone point me to instructions for
this? Thanks
> >
>
>
