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Hi Gyorgyi, > Also, do you package the Windows version of CAVE? > > I had to install it centrally, and not in the users' profile. > > The biggest problem with the user's own CAVE was that Windows treated every > user's > CAVE instance as a separate one. It needed to open the firewall for every > instance > one by one, needing an admin password. Every time every student logged in to a > machine the first time it would require an admin password in the middle of > the class. > Not to mention they would need to start the first class installing their own > CAVE, > and we would have about 10 CAVE copies on one machine. This is not the biggest > problem, though. The firewall issue is. > > I installed CAVE to Program Files, but config files and icons still pointed > to user's > profiles. I had to modify files pointing to the central CAVE AFTER > installation. > > If it is not too much trouble for you to create an installer that installs > everything > system-wise, that would help me a lot. Yes, we do package and create the Windows installer. I think we may be able to create an installer that will install CAVE at the system level, so it only needs to be installed once for any machine in your lab. If we create an installer like this, would you/someone at A&M be able to test it out? We can try and have this available for v20 of CAVE. Thanks for the question! --Shay Carter She/Her/Hers AWIPS Software Engineer UCAR - Unidata If you're interested, please feel free to fill out a survey about the support you receive: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDIkdk8qUMgq8ZdM4jhP-ubJPUOr-mJMQgxInwoAWoV5QcOw/viewform Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: KEP-983436 Department: Support AWIPS Priority: Normal Status: Open =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.