Re: terminal services compatibility


"swansnow" <schultz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> My question involves writing an app to be compatible with Terminal
> Services.
>
> Some of our clients use Terminal Services on their network. In case you
> aren't familiar with Terminal Services, what it does is runs the
> application from a server, and each user has a mapped home directory to
> store their files and settings in. So each user sees something like
> W:\username for their home directory, when in reality, the directory is
> on the server as \\myServer\profiles\home\username. The application's
> exe files exists on the server, and runs on the server.
>
> In my Delphi app, I have a couple of ini files, and a couple of
> database
> tables which hold settings for each user. These files need to be
> avialable
> for a particular user only. If the files don't exist, I need to create
> a
> fresh copy in the user's directory.
>
> The way I would ordinarily do this is look for the path of the exe --
> ExtractFilePath(Application.Exename) and store the ini and dbf files
> there. But I can't do that with Teminal Services, since there is only
> one exe.
>
> After doing a bit of digging, I found that there appears to be an
> environment variable called ROOTDRIVE which contains the mapped path
> for the user (i.e., W:\username). So I guess that I can see if that
> environment variable exists and use it if it does, and if it doesn't
> use the path of the exename.
>
> My question is then, do any of you have experience with this, and am I
> on
> the right track? Is there a recommended way of doing this kind of
> thing?

Each computer on a network has a unique name. Instead of
storing the files in the application folder create sub-folders
for each terminal, using its name, then store the files in there.

PR


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