HI Stefan
What you were looking for, is feasible. You should read the section 'Running XSI Remotely ' in the setup and licensing guide. What you do is a normal install of XSI on a shared location, then you will have to download and install the client setup.
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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM]On Behalf
Of Stefan Andersson
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 8:57 AM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Installation XSI server option
Ah ok, thanks for the info!
regards
stefan
On 11/1/05, Patrick Boucher <patrickb(at)buzzimage.com> wrote:
> You don't really launch XSI from a server install. The name is a bit
> misleading if you ask me.
>
> A server install allows you to run the installation once, answering all
> the usual questions, and put a copy of the installation files along with
> a profile (the answer to the questions) to a centralized location.
>
> Once you've done this, you can run the installer from the centralized
> location along with a few command line switches to specify the profile
> to use and you've got an unattended installation. Couple this with a
> little system scripting and you can install XSI once (server install)
> and each client install becomes a single click on each computer.
>
> Bring psexec from Sysinternals (www.sysinternals.com), thanks Kim, and
> you can do all that from your own computer!
>
> It's not like launching a Linux application from a mounted drive but it
> eases the pain a bit of a large Windows deployment.
>
> Cheers,
>
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>
> Stefan Andersson wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I'm just shooting out in the air here to see what other people do (who
> > mainly are windows based).
> > I haven't (to be honest ) tested the server install with XSI yet.
> > Mainly because I think it would use a lot of bandwidth when everyone
> > is also launching their application from a server install, or am I
> > wrong here? Before I've always been working with companys that had a
> > sysadmin or a TD that would know these things... well... moving back
> > to a small country this is no longer the case :)
> > So I was wondering what peoples thoughts are? At the moment I'm doing
> > a local install on 3 machines and 10 renderslaves, which can take some
> > time. My guess is that server install would make this easier, but is
> > there anything special to think about? will I have the same problem as
> > having workgroups on a server instead of localy?
> >
> > best regards
> > stefan andersson
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