This seems quite straightforward, thank you. A couple of things which worried me were:
1) how to install it on the server - I guess you just put the floppy disk in the server and install normally. I didn't know if QPC2's installation routine could handle installing on a server. 2) whether I'd have to somehow ensure that the relevant files (it should only be a small QXL.WIN) were either accessible from the server, or if there had to be copies (even if only temporary on the client hard disk) locally when it was used. When I'm ready to finish doing this, it should be an interesting exercice in itself even if no long term use comes from it. Dilwyn Jones > > From: "Wolfgang Uhlig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/02/11 Fri PM 02:41:45 GMT > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [ql-users] network installation of QPC2 > > Marcel wrote: > > Quite normally, I guess. But there will be problems when > > a) two users trying to start QPC at the same instant (one will get a > > "Cannot open SMSQE.BIN" or something like that). > > b) two users trying to access the .WIN file at the same time. > > To prevent those problems I did it the following way in the language > institute I worked, where severals students had to work with the same > QL-program > at the same time. > > 1) There is one original QPC, SMSQ/E.bin and QXL.win on the server. > 2) Clicking a QPC-icon on the client's desktop first runs a small > batch-file > which will XCOPY (DOS command) all files to the client computer and > then > 3) run QPC from the client computer. > > The XCOPY command cares for copying only when something on the server > has changed, so you can make sure that changes to programs or data is only > done on the server "original" qxl.win file. > If changes on the client computers have to be stored, just adapt the > XCOPY-batch > to not copy QXL.win. > > Everything runs fine, fast and complications are not likely. Modern > PC-networks are so > fast, that you hardly notice the copying. > > Wolfgang > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
