On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Andrea Aime <aa...@opengeo.org> wrote: > Ian Turton ha scritto: >> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Mike Pumphrey <m...@opengeo.org> wrote: >>> Hi Ian. That is a valid consideration. The new installer does put a >>> shortcut in the Start Menu to that folder, but you're right that the >>> inability to simply navigate to the data_dir via Explorer could be a bit >>> awkward. Do you have an alternate placement suggestion, or do you think we >>> should leave things as is? >>> >> >> I guess $HOME/Geoserver_data would probably work best across most >> systems - the user can find it easily, has write permission and you >> could put a readme in the directory telling them how to change >> $GEOSERVER_DATADIR to point to an new location if they want to change >> it. > > Hmmm... except in some systems (Unix) a user can be there without having > a home, and that is especially true for users that run services. > > However, this is the Windows installer. Can a user that runs services > exist without a home there? >
I hadn't thought of people actually doing the install as administrator. The problems that my students run in to are usually related to only having user privileges on the machine. But I think vista always makes you a home directory when you create an account - for example posgres has a user folder on my vista machine. Ian -- Ian Turton Sent from State College, PA, United States ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list Geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
