Hi Joey
I'd say that this is unsupported...
I don't see how it can work unless you lock it all down.
Consider what will happen with default.xsipref:
User A changes a preference and exits. That updates default.xsipref.
Then user B changes that same preference to something else, and maybe
some other preferences, and exits. The xsipref file is again updated.
User A starts Softimage again and their preference changes are gone, so
they do them again.
And so on and so on...
You may or may not get away without a lock file problem.
Off the top of my head, couldn't XSI.bat call a script on a server, and
that script writes out a standard custom.xsipref file to the local User
location?
On 08/03/2013 11:11 AM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] wrote:
Stephen,
I realize that user profiles are intended to be centric to the user,
but I think I would like to have my user profile propagated to other
machines. If that's possible without being reckless.
As for workgroups the .wkg looks interesting but I'm not really having
any issues with the workgroup itself.
The question really is can 2+ instances of Softimage, on 2+ separate
machines, safely read and write to a single profile located on a
central server for the intentional purpose of propagating a single
user profile across multiple machines?
--
Joey Ponthieux
LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES)
Mymic Technical Services
NASA Langley Research Center
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*Stephen Blair
*Sent:* Thursday, March 07, 2013 4:06 PM
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*Subject:* Re: XSI_USERHOME and Workgroups
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?
--
Joey Ponthieux
LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES)
Mymic Technical Services
NASA Langley Research Center
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