Deployment woes

I created network deployments of Map and Land Desktop 2005, using all of the
default settings. The installation works, but the problem is, the first
location in the autocad search path always contains the profile directory of
the user who installed the software, rather than the current user.
Shouldn't this point to the CURRENT user????

Can anybody tell me how to fix this?

Jon

 

Hi Jon,

The default Lddt.arg and the default Map.arg have an incorrect path that
references the windows user profile that was used for installation. When a
different user account (with power user rights) logs on to the machine, by
default they will not have access to the original paths listed in the .arg
files.

If you have not run Land Desktop 2005 as a Power User, simply modify the
"ACAD" path in the Lddt.arg file.

Prior to running Land Desktop 2005, open c:\Program Files\Land Desktop
2005\lddt.arg file in Notepad and find the line beginning with the text
"ACAD"=". Modify the following portion of this path as shown:

ORIGINAL TEXT:
"ACAD"="C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application Data\..."

CORRECTED TEXT:
"ACAD"="%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\..."

Basically, replace "C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\" with
"%USERPROFILE%".

Repeat for C:\Program Files\Land Desktop 2005\Map.arg

If you have already run Land Desktop 2005, you will need to follow the steps
above, then delete the "Land Desktop" profile.

Jonathan Golubiewski
Autodesk Product Support
Land.Civil.Survey

 

Thanks Jon, I'll try that.

Jon

 

This SEEMS to work, but it still displays some nasty error messages that it
can't find certain files or settings. Is this normal??

 

I take that back - this really does not work - it complains that it cannot
find a bunch of things like the express tools, acad.mns and base.dcl. When
it loads, the menu is incomplete.

 

Jon,
Take a look at http://support.autodesk.com/getDoc.asp?id=TS84941 for a
resolution on your Express Tools problem.

 

Thanks, Jerry & Jon. I found my problem - my arg files had the profile path
set to:

%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Autodesk\Land Desktop 2005...

when it should have been:
%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Autodesk\Autodesk Land Desktop 2005....


I probably caused this, but I didn't check to see if the 'Autodesk' is
missing from the normal install...

Jon Rizzo
Langan Engineering and Environmental Services, Inc.