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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Running Kermit from a server
Date: 25 Sep 1997 22:33:24 GMT
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In article <342A6FBB.ADF08550@nrc.ca>,
Paul Melsness <Paul.Melsness@nrc.ca> wrote:
: We have installed Kermit...
:
You're talking about Kermit 95, right?
: ... on a Novell server and would like our users
: to be able to run it from the server (without installing it locally).
:
Which is perfectly legal provided the number of concurrent users does not
exceed your license.
: This works, but with the configuration files on the server, users cannot
: change screen colour, etc. I have written a batch file that copies
: dialusr.dat and the *.usr files to the user's home directory on the
: server. In the dial.scr file, I have commented out the line " if exist
: \v(startup)\%a.usr take \v(startup)\%a.usr " ...
:
What is the dial.scr file? What are the *.usr files? This makes me think
that (1) your environment is already rather customized, so I don't know
what you're talking about; and (2) you haven't updated your K95 version in
quite some time. We discovered over a year and a half ago that Microsoft had
registered .SCR as the extension for screensavers, and so we renamed all of
our Kermit script files to have a new extension .KSC (Kermit SCript) because
double-clicking on a Kermit .SCR file did not do what you might have expected.
I'd heartily recommend you update your K95 installation to the current
release, which is 1.1.14, announced just yesterday:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95patch.html
: ... and replaced it with "take
: f:\\users\\mcbean\\teca/\%a.usr" (I would actually like to use DOS
: environment variables instead of f:\\users\\mcbean but that is not my
: concern at the moment). Kermit does access the *.usr file on the user's
: account, like I had expected. However, if I change the terminal colour
: for an entry, for example, the dialusr.dat file that is being changed is
: still the one on the server, not the one on the user's account. How do
: I get Kermit to commit these changes to the user's dialusr.dat file and
: not the server's?
:
The only general solution is to put the user's disk/directory ahead of
the server's in the PATH. That is a restriction of the cross-platform GUI
developement system used to create the Dialer.
Other more restrictive solutions are to let the user make customizations in
her or his K95CUSTOM.INI file, which, I presume, must be on the local disk.
By the way, more recent versions of K95 do come with instructions for server
installation (see the READ.ME file after you apply the upgrade patch).
- Frank