Re: lingo-l LAN-served projectors

2006-01-11 Thread Ross Clutterbuck

Hi Chris

Thanks for your input so far.


permissions could be a big headache depending on your architechture.
As nothing is to be written to disk, and I always use an external xtras 
folder, I shouldn't think permissions should be too much of a problem, 
although thankfully that's not my responsibility in the end!



i would go with a client/server design.
What do you have in mind? The idea behind this is to have everything served 
from a remote location with nothing really installed or required at the 
client end (apart from the Shockwave player if I go web-based), otherwise we 
might as well just stick with the existing CD delivery.


Any more contributions list?

Thanks as always
Ross





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Re: lingo-l LAN-served projectors

2006-01-11 Thread Cole Tierney

At 12:26 PM + 1/11/06, Ross Clutterbuck wrote:

Any more contributions list?


Another option is to ensure all users have only read access to the 
directory containing your projector. Then you shouldn't have to worry 
about locking files.


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Re: lingo-l LAN-served projectors

2006-01-10 Thread chris phillips
make sure all projectors, .cxt, and .dxr files are set to 
read-only/locked in order for the application to be used by multiple 
users simultaneously.

permissions could be a big headache depending on your architechture.
i would go with a client/server design.
have you ever used the valentina xtra?
-c


Ross Clutterbuck wrote:

Hi List

I'm after some advice and pointers on how to best achieve running 
Director projects over a network.


Currently a lot of training programs that I've developed have been 
distributed on CD-ROM, but the client is now making noises about 
serving them across their intranet instead.


At their core, these programs are nothing more complicated than 
click-button-play-MPEG and the occassional number-crunching widget, 
although our QTVR risk assessment simulations I think are now a 
standard feature too.


The only communication-type activity are two web links to feedback and 
version check systems handled by an ASP application (hence outside of 
Director).


At this stage I don't envisage a large number of simultaneous users 
(I've been quoted around 10 at a time) but I know that the client has 
grossy underestimated this figure, or very shortly will want to run 
hundreds or even thousands of simultaneous users.


Therefore I sincerely doubt that simply copying the contents of an 
existing CD to a network location and accessing the projector over the 
LAN is going to be a suitable solution.


At this stage I'm not sure I have the time to rebuild everything for 
Shcokwave delivery (and even then I'm not too familiar with the 
loads/stresses/requirements I'll need to consider for the MPEG video), 
but obviously if it's going to be a big job then I will explain this 
to my client.


Where do I look? How do I approach this new delivery medium? What do I 
do?


TIA
Ross

   
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