Running Forte via a network file share (Part 1)

Question

G'Day
I would like to run Forte via file a share on all suitable machines.
Any experiences from the list would be much appreciated in this regard. (Is
it possible? Feasible - well let's find out...)
Here is what I expect I will need to do:
1. Need a 60MB file share on the network - check
2. Need a SOE ("typical") Windows95(8) PC - working on it
3. Will need to install Forte runtime on this SOE PC using the file share as
root drive - waiting on 2
4. Now test some local applications to run on this PC using forte via the
file share - waiting on 3
Q: What are the implications of running forte via the file share.
All I want is to run inhouse developed applications on any PC without having
to install Forte on each and every PC!
How much file transfer can I expect forte to generate?
If this works I'll have to work out how to set other SOE PC to use Forte via
the fileshare.
I expect I'll have to set registry settings. Anything else? But more to that
in Part 2.
Let's see how this works out first.
TIA,
[:-)irK
Dirk Haben
Sealcorp Holdings, Perth WA
[phone] (B) UMT + 8
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Answer 1

Hi Dirk,
This may be harder than it seems. Forte uses a number of
files stored over a number of different directories all starting
with forte_root. Some of these files are only read, others are
also updated. Some have to be local, others don't.
We have done two things that are related to this.
1) Our client partition is manually copied to a file server.
Clients use ftexec with a parameter to indicate the inter-
preted code repository, which is stored on this file server.
The client partition isn't installed on any of the clients.
a) you can't use the launcher
b) you can only deploy a new version if everyone quits
their application
2) Out unix development machine has three different forte
environments on it, each using their own directory tree.
They all have their own 'appdist', 'userapp' and 'repos'
directory, but other directories are symbolic links to the
same, single instance. Within 'appdist' and 'userapp', the
directories for 'forte', 'fscript', 'econsole', etc. are also sym-
bolic links.
This way we minimize the duplicating of files, yet each en-
vironment thinks it has everything itself.
Pascal Rottier
STP - MSS Support & Coordination Group
Philip Morris Europe
e-mail: [email protected]
Phone: [phone]
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Origin IT-services
Desktop Business Solutions Rotterdam
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Phone: [phone]
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To: 'Soapbox Forte Users'
Subject: Running Forte via a network file share (Part 1)
G'Day
I would like to run Forte via file a share on all suitable machines.
Any experiences from the list would be much appreciated in this regard.
(Is
it possible? Feasible - well let's find out...)
Here is what I expect I will need to do:
1. Need a 60MB file share on the network - check
2. Need a SOE ("typical") Windows95(8) PC - working on it
3. Will need to install Forte runtime on this SOE PC using the file share
as
root drive - waiting on 2
4. Now test some local applications to run on this PC using forte via the
file share - waiting on 3
Q: What are the implications of running forte via the file share.
All I want is to run inhouse developed applications on any PC without
having
to install Forte on each and every PC!
How much file transfer can I expect forte to generate?
If this works I'll have to work out how to set other SOE PC to use Forte
via
the fileshare.
I expect I'll have to set registry settings. Anything else? But more to
that
in Part 2.
Let's see how this works out first.
TIA,
[:-)irK
Dirk Haben
Sealcorp Holdings, Perth WA
[phone] (B) UMT + 8
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'unsubscribe forte-users' as the body of the message.
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