Hi
User profiles are more per-user than a workgroup. For example, user
preferences are stored in the user profile (defaults.xsipref).
That's where your workgroups are listed. For example:
data_management.workgroup_appl_path =
C:\Users\SOLIDANGLE\Documents\Workgroups\sitoa-2.7.1-2013
XSI.exe updates the prefs on exit, so you may want to make the user
location read-only if you are going to share one User location between
multiple machines.
For workgroups, you could use a .wkg file instead, and that can go
either in the Factory Data location or the User Data location.
On 07/03/2013 3:28 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] wrote:
I'm setting up multiple machines to run Softimage 2013 SP1. I've come
to a question which I'm unsure how to address.
I set my workgroup to a central location all systems point to a single
workgroup. It dawned on me though that I still had a user profile
which was now being replicated on multiple machines. That user profile
set by
set XSI_USERHOME=%XSI_USERROOT%\Autodesk\Softimage_2013_SP1
which is the install location. The thought occurred to me that I could
also move the user profile to a central location and have all machines
point to it.
I realize that workgroups and user profiles are similar, but since I
can't find a parameter in the setenv.bat that points to workgroups I
have to assume that the workgroup is defined in the user profile.
So the question is this. Is there any danger to pointing to a single
user profile from multiple machines? Will simultaneously instances of
Soft on different machines club settings in the centralized profile?
I realize the point of Workgroups was to have a central single
location that plugin and other resources could be propagated to
multiple machines, but is that also the case with the user profile?
Are there any experiences where this was discovered to be an issue?
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Joey Ponthieux
LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES)
Mymic Technical Services
NASA Langley Research Center
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