Profiles in a server environment

[PENProducts]

I have 8 AutoCAD stations which log into my server for a legal license. I thought that was as far as the server assisted in controlling the AutoCAD.

Now, every time one of my AutoCAD users creates a profile, saves it, makes it current, and then closes the application, it is lost the next time they start AutoCAD.

How can I insure that they have the profile they want every time the application is started?

 

[nexus3d]

I am not sure what type of environment you are using,
or how Autocad is set up on your environment, but Autocad
should look into there profiles on the server first
before initializing any settings. The profile and Autocad
need to be directed to the server.

 

[RivieraCadMan]

Your problem can be solved by saving the profiles locally on the users machines. I think you problem has to do with read or write permissions where the profiles are stored on the server, but without being able to see your setup, it's just a guess.

 

[Striker]

The definitions for a user profile are stored in the system registry, however, when a user accesses a server installation of AutoCAD, the information returned is supposed to be the "current" profile. If... and this is a big if... the server is resetting the profile information to the last opened session of AutoCAD, then when a second user opens AutoCAD, they will get the last saved profile which may or may not be theirs. If the profile is not being saved at all, then I would look at the server permissions, otherwise I would export the user profile locally, then have the startup set the current profile to the saved one. Incedently, I have heard of this type of problem when the local computer had software installed to prevent users from editing the registry and installing programs, since the profile can be changed but if you cannot store the data in the registry, then you cannot retrieve it next time around.

 

[RivieraCadMan]

When I first started working here I was confronted with a similar problem, but the profiles were on the server. I don't know the software setup at that time or what was done to prevent the problems we were having, but it had to do with the profile database located on the server, and our write permissions to that database. As for the profiles being stored locally, this is how the company handles the user issue now. The two stations in my department are now stand alone due to the frailty of overhead fiber during hurricanes. I’m sorry if I was misleading.