Also it doesn’t matter where the configuration files are – you can put them on
the client PC, or you can put them on the server, and keyed by either the login
name or the computername (or even both).
On reading what you are doing I realised that one of my configurations actually
does it back to front from what you described:
Programs are stored and run from the client PC, but settings are stored on the
server, in inifiles with the individual employees details in the name of the
ini file.
Reasons are:
- programs are updated from central folder but run updated automatically to
local pc and run locally for performance reasons and so the central programs
can be updated with no issues.
- settings stored on server so they can be backed up and administered from
server. Also as well as multiple employee settings all stored together, the
setup is multi-company so that different organisations can share the same
server – ie the name of all files differs for type of settings/employee/company
or organisation/
- also allows me to copy whole client configuration onto my system so can
troubleshoot and run exact clients setup without overwriting my setup.
From: Jeremy Coulter
Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2015 9:58 PM
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: [DUG] Question about running an app. across a network
Hi All.
I have an app that I will be running from a server location. However, I want
the app. to read an ini file that is located in a folder on a client machine.
A Shortcut to the app on the server and the ini file will live in a folder on
the client machine, but I cant work out how to get the app, when its run via
the shortcut, to read the ini file on the client machine.
Anyone know how to go about doing this?
I have thought about dropping the INI and transferring the settings to a
database with a row for each machine that connects, but before I get that
carried away, I just wanted to see if someone had any ideas to do the above
with the ini file.
The reason I want an ini for each computer is about settings. Not all machines
have the same settings etc.
Thanks, Jeremy
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