Re: Massive Client Access Install

Thanks for the suggestion. We have Ghost already, but the new PC's will be running XP whereas the current ones, such as my own, are running W2K. I've never used Ghost myself, but my recollection from reading is that it took everything off of A and put it on B. It would be nice, though, if it could take the Desktop shortcuts and selected folders/items from one PC to the other one. But I would think a partial copy would play havoc (potentially) with the Windows registry. But I will ask.

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Armand Borick wrote:

Jerry,

If the PC hardware is all the same model, do a complete build on one PC and
use Norton Ghost to clone the rest.

The Individual PC's will only need to be updated in the areas of
Windows Computer Name, and iSeries Access WSID.

Ghost costs about US$50, but worth every dime.

Good Luck,
Armand Borick

"Jerry Adams" <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:mailman.4387.1208896313.2390.midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

By massive I mean that there are going to be about 30-40 PC's purchased and installed from ground zero. The questions du jour relate to Client Access.

I think we can save the \Program Files\ibm\client access\emulator\private folder to a network drive (defining each user uniquely, of course) and just copy that back onto the PC once C/A is installed. That should keep all of the user's session Ids, printer emulations, keyboard mappings and colors, etc. If that is erroneous, I would certainly like to know.

The bigger question right now, though, is: Is there an easy way to see what each user currently has selected for other stuff, such as ODBC. I know I can go into "Selective Setup" off of the iSeries Access for Windows option in the PC's Start menu, but I have been looking for either a report (don't I wish!) or an .ini or such file. I've found a few files of that nature but none that appears to contain that stuff.

It would seem apparent that I will have to do a full blown re-install rather than just copy some folders because of the entries in the Windows Registry, including re-defining the connection to the production machine. But any simple and easy to understand short cuts would be appreciated because I think their going to farm this PC set-up out to a couple of PC geeks who look cross-eyed at me when I say AS/400, iSeries, System i, or anything that doesn't sound like "PC".

Thanks.

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* Jerry C. Adams
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