On Dec 12, 2007 6:23 PM, Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.de wrote:
On Dec 10, 2007, at 13:35 , Bill Kerr wrote:
What is a good way to distribute squeak on a network (Windows network at my school) ?
From my understanding there is no option but to give each student their own personal image file but the sources and changes files could be left out. http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2007/07/image-file-virtual-machine- bytecodes.html
If I was going to give students both Bots and Squeak then this would result in quite large student folders, the image files range b/w 15 and 20 MB. But I don't see any alternative.
Well, as long as you do not need students to be able to save their own images, a single copy on the server should work quite well. You just need to fiddle with the squeak.ini file so everyone gets their own UserDirectory for storing projects and SecureDirectory for the project signing keys:
Fiddling with the squeak.ini or bots.ini file doesn't seem to change anything
squeak seems to ignore [Security] UserDirectory=C:\botsFiles in squeak.ini
and just defaults to
"C:\My Squeak%USERNAME%"
so you stuck with that directory for saving in (which won't be acceptable at my school)
All the *.ini files I have looked at in squeak / bots distributions don't have a UserDirectory line in them
try pasting into the transcript SecurityManager default untrustedUserDirectory and using printIt --> squeak seems to ignore [Security] UserDirectory=C:\botsFiles in squeak.ini
try pasting into the transcript SecurityManager default untrustedUserDirectory and using printIt --> 'C:\My Squeak\user'
or
SecurityManager default secureUserDirectory then printit --> 'C:\Program Files\Squeak\Plugin\user'
So, is it possible to run bots on a network off the one image so that users can only save their scripts?
What are other people using bots in schools with networks actually doing?