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- From: wa95003@oxford.ac.uk (Martin J Bligh)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
- Subject: Windows & Novell 3.11 (getting it working)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.200307.18587@black.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:03:07 GMT
- Sender: wa95003@black.ox.ac.uk (Martin J Bligh)
- Organization: Oxford University, UK
- Lines: 41
- Originator: wa95003@black
-
- I am trying to get windows running under Novell 3.11
-
- I seem to be running into a few problems, which I am sure must be
- fairly standard. I have set up windows so that each user has their own
- copies of the ini files, etc. The main windows directory is
- root-mapped to W: and is always in the path. H: is root mapped to the
- users home directory, and their configs are saved into H:\WINDOWS
-
- (1) Different machines on the net have different video cards, etc. I
- thus need to autodetect the chipset (which I will probably write a
- small program in C to do), and then autoconfigure the .ini files
- apropriately. Any user should be able to use any workstation, and I
- don't want to end up having about 3 sets of windows files for each
- user, one for each chipset.
-
- (2) When I install a new application, I need to update all the users
- files for win.ini etc. This is incredibly tedious, and there must be
- an easier way to do it.
-
- The only solution that I can think of is to automatically build
- win.ini, etc. when the user goes into windows. This would involve
- assembling from 3 bits:
-
- a) The main system part - this would be changed when a new application
- was installed.
- b) The hardware part - this would piece in the appropriate sections
- for the video card on the machine being used.
- c) The user's part - this would enable the user to configure their own
- changes, not just to things like the backdrop, but also to
- applications, like Word for windows, etc.
-
- When the user exits Windows, the changes that they have made to
- win.ini, etc should be filtered out, and saved back into the "user's
- part" so that they will not be lost.
-
- Does such a tool already exist? If not, would anyone be willing to
- co-operate in a project to get such a thing going? I am familiar with
- the structure of .ini files, and am a reasonably competent
- C-programmer.
-
- Fletch
-