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Alan

Hi,
We've currently got users running emulator programs on their PCs that
connect to a Unix box and an AS400 box. These PCs run as a workgroup.. Now I
want them all to be on a domain. Each user may have set different settings
for their emulator, such as colour, font size, keyboard mapping etc...
When I change one of the workgroup PCs to be on a domain and try and run one
of the emulators, I just get the 'bog standard' version of the emulator. Is
there any way I can either carry the settings over for each user from the
workgroup or set emulator defaults that I determine for all users?

TIA

Alan
 
We've currently got users running emulator programs on their PCs that
connect to a Unix box and an AS400 box. These PCs run as a workgroup.. Now I
want them all to be on a domain. Each user may have set different settings
for their emulator, such as colour, font size, keyboard mapping etc...
When I change one of the workgroup PCs to be on a domain and try and run one
of the emulators, I just get the 'bog standard' version of the emulator. Is
there any way I can either carry the settings over for each user from the
workgroup or set emulator defaults that I determine for all users?
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There is no common rule how emulators are handling this.
I have seen some different methods:
- Configuration files unique to the machine (INI stored in the program
dir or in Win NT or reg Settings in HKLM).
- Configurations stored in a user directory (or HKCU)
- Configurations storing the machine IP (which is awful if you try to
run roaming profiles but can be done).

Browse to www.sysinternals.com and download REGMON and FILEMON.
Those tools are able to log registry and file access.
Another way to find out where the emulation is storing session data is
to use SYSDIFF or another tool able to run a snapshot of the machine
before and after changing settings.


Ciao, Walter
 
Hi Walter,

I've had a look and both emulators use a seperate config file in which to
store their settings. In both cases the config file is saved in the same
directory as the emulator, for example C:\Program Files\Mochasoft.

Thanks

Alan
 
Just noticed this post, so I hope this helps.

After you join the machine to the Domain, configure the
emulator (or let the user), save the config file in the
users home directory, ans tell it to use this file as the
default.

We use both MochaSoft and DBS (an IBM 5250 emulation
software), and this works.
Each user will then have their own config file when
starting the emulators.

Have a great day!
 
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