Hi Large issues... and you will find many bugs, some of them are new as they never test such scenarios. (Understand that as which dev would think of it?) Tested all ways for shared user profiles in RR. If you use a shared location for the user folder, then 1) You have to write lock everything after you have set it up. Otherwise the files get corrupt. 2) You need to have XSI installed in the same location on all machines. 3) Never mix SI versions although the user prefs seem similar (see also 2.) 4) If a new shader was installed/removed, then it could happen that you have a lot of errors on the first start on a different machine. I removed the shared user prefs because of to many issues. And unflexible if you want to change workgroups between projects. My next approach is to create a shared default.xsiprefs(?) preference file. But in the XSI startup script I copy the default.prefs file into the local %XSI_USERHOME% folder. And only that file, not the whole pref folder. Holger Schönberger technical director The day has 24 hours, if that does not suffice, I will take the night
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 9:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: XSI_USERHOME and Workgroups Im setting up multiple machines to run Softimage 2013 SP1. Ive come to a question which Im 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 cant 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 __________________________________________________ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party.
