File locations/ networking

Started by Mike, August 27, 2010, 10:02:57 AM

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Mike

When preparing jobs offline one a different PC, it makes life easier if both the setup PC and the one running the machine have access to teh same file structure, in particular the CDF library. It also avoids the need to seperately backup the files on the placer machine if it's using a network drive that's already part of a backup regime. I use a drive mapped to a folder on a NAS box to do this.
The default install sets some internal paths to drive C regardless of the drive the software is actually installed on.

In order to use a drive other than C, Once the RV software in installed, you need to edit the five .cfg files in the install directory to reflect the new paths.

Once this is done it seems to be quite happy running off a network drive, although you should avoid having software running on multiple machines at the same time to avoid any file access contention issues.