[ jEdit-users ] Help needed with jEdit in a student labenvironment

[Pete B. <pe...@ge...>]

Each PC has it's own JDK and jEdit and the system path has been modified.
But just simply providing the link to jEdit does not work in this situation
as we determined when this issue arose last time.  Due to the program
needing personal settings, each user technically has to install the
application or atleast the components I guess you could say (jEdit
launcher).  That is the purpose of the batch file.

Mandatory profiles are not something we can add in our environment. It
slowed network performance and also not worth creating all mandatory
profiles for one application.

Permissions for the batch file itself all look good, they have execute
permission.

Pete
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey Burns" <jf...@ro...>
To: "jEdit User's List" <jed...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: [ jEdit-users ] Help needed with jEdit in a student
labenvironment


> Hi Pete,
>
> Could you give some more information. If each workstation has its own
> JDK and copy of jEdit you simply need to put the jdk/bin in the _system_
> path and drop a link to jEdit in c:\Documents and Settings\common or all
> or whatever its called. It should then work for anyone logging in at the
> given station.
>
> If you are using a pdc/bdc to authenticate students you might look at
> creating a mandatory profile for them.
>
> As for why your batch file won't run for students, all I can think is
> they don't have execute privileges for the batch file:right click on it
> and check the permissions. It shouldn't require a trip to the policy
> editor.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 11:43, Pete Bartling wrote:
> > <snip>
> >
> > My previous problem was that we needed to figure out a way to get
> >jEdit to run on PC's that had several different students logging onto
> >each day.  So with your help and a small batch file I created that
> >students run prior to using jEdit for the first time on a specific PC,
> >we were able to get jEdit to work in our environment.  We were using
> >all NT PC's, jEdit 1.3.1 and the batch file was simply:
> >   d:
> >   cd "program files\jedit 3.2.2\"
> >   jedit.exe /i "d:\jdk1.3.1_02\bin"
> > So by each student running this, this would install the personal
> >settings for jEdit needed to run the program for each student.  Okay,
> >so no problems there.  But now we have moved to jEdit 1.4.1 and running
> >them on Win2k PC's (which is the problem).  I can run this same batch
> >file (modified to reflect new version of Java 2 and jEdit) with
> >administrative privileges, but when run with anything less then
> >administrative privileges, the batch file will just run and then
> >disappear and never install the jEdit settings.  So obviously this is a
> >security issue.  So does anyone know where I need to give the students
> >additional security at or maybe some thoughts on where to check, in
> >order for them to be able to run this batch file?
> >
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Pete Bartling
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
> > Department of Geography
> > Hunter College
> > New York, NY
> > Tel: 212-772-4535
> > Fax: 212-772-5268
>
>
>
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