[DUG] Question about running an app. across a network

[John Bird]

Also it doesn’t matter where the configuration files are – you can put them on the client PC, or you can put them on the server, and keyed by either the login name or the computername (or even both).

On reading what you are doing I realised that one of my configurations actually does it back to front from what you described:

Programs are stored and run from the client PC, but settings are stored on the server, in inifiles with the individual employees details in the name of the ini file.

Reasons are:

- programs are updated from central folder but run updated automatically to local pc and run locally for performance reasons and so the central programs can be updated with no issues.

- settings stored on server so they can be backed up and administered from server.  Also as well as multiple employee settings all stored together, the setup is multi-company so that different organisations can share the same server – ie the name of all files differs for type of settings/employee/company or organisation/

- also allows me to copy whole client configuration onto my system so can troubleshoot and run exact clients setup without overwriting my setup.

From: Jeremy Coulter 
Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2015 9:58 PM
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List 
Subject: [DUG] Question about running an app. across a network

Hi All. 
I have an app that I will be running from a server location. However, I want the app. to read an ini file that is located in a folder on a client machine.
A Shortcut to the app on the server and the ini file will live in a folder on the client machine, but I cant work out how to get the app, when its run via the shortcut, to read the ini file on the client machine.
Anyone know how to go about doing this?
I have thought about dropping the INI and transferring the settings to a database with a row for each machine that connects, but before I get that carried away, I just wanted to see if someone had any ideas to do the above with the ini file.
The reason I want an ini for each computer is about settings. Not all machines have the same settings etc.

Thanks, Jeremy


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