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From: mce3p@virginia.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows On a Network...
Summary: CAN be done!
Keywords: Windows, Novell
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.150051.16103@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 24 Jun 91 15:00:51 GMT
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In article <1991Jun22.154533.9461@wam.umd.edu> einstein@wam.umd.edu (Daniel J. Levine) writes:
>My company is very interested in installing one copy of windows
>on a Novell network.  I thought I remebered readin something
>in here about the regular windows package doubling as a network
>license.  Do I have this straight?
>
>Even if I don't, we have bought enough copies of windows 3.0 
>such that we could make it available on the net to only the
>number of people actually have the licenses.
>
>Here's my real question:
>
>Is there a way of installing windows such that each person could
>have their own particular setup (.ini files, device drivers,etc)
>in their own personl directory space and then have the three different
>versions (or maybe just standard mode and 386enh mode) avaiable in
>two different directories being shared by all?  Don't worry about
>whether we have 386's or 486's-- that's all we have.
>
>So, can this be done?  Has anyone done it?
>
>Emc2
>
>
>-- 
>_______________________________________________________________________
>Joe Sample - University of Merryland, College Park
>jsample@wam.umd.edu (This is a sample signature file)

We have Win3 installed on an IBM LAN Server Version 1.3 LAN.  Read the
section in the manual (Chapter 14) concerning network installation.  Each 
user can install windows to any directory on the network, and start 
windows from there for each different configuration.  To install from
a network, you type "setup /n," which copies only the bare minimum to the
current network drive.  You can then edit the .INI files to achieve the
configuration you need.  Hope this helps!
 
Chris Exley
Department of Human Resources
University of Virginia