EAGLE install on workstation cluster

Am 31.05.2011 11:29, schrieb tomcl:

There must be others with this problem, but I have not found an answer anywhere.

 

We have a cluster of 300 PCs, all with identical windows 7 software. We use deepfreeze which keeps a master OS copy and copies this to local machines as necessary. We also can mount a  common remote file system.

 

the problem with this setup is the EAGLE license mechanism. We have a site license, or would still be happy to install the free version. But we can't install anything with a common image for all PCs, and it is absolutely impractical to set this up manually.

 

We don't use windows server - each workstation is independent.

 

It seems a shame not to use EAGLE, which although it has a slightly peculiar user interface is simple enough to teach, and capable enough for all our needs. But we can see no way to do this.

 

Would one solution be to run linux as a virtual OS under win 7 with a common linux image that runs EAGLE? I guess the virtual disks would then look identical to the license management system?

 

There must be many other universities with similar problems. Any ideas?

 

Best wishes, Tom

 

Do I understand correctly that there is no server where you

could install EAGLE and license at the server from one of the

workstations?

If this would be the case you could start EAGLE from all workstations

(provided they have identical connection to the server) by coying

the starting link to all workstations.

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Richard,

We have servers of course, but these provide license distribution, authentication, web pages, remote file system. We do not have compute servers or support any such.

So we can install eagle on a server, with a filing system that is exported. But the installed files, seen by a workstation as a remote file system, would have to run on the workstation. I would think this model (no compute server) is quite common in universities? Most of our software runs with a remote license manager that allows site licenses or floating seat licenses.

Best wishes, Tom

Richard,

We have servers of course, but these provide license distribution, authentication, web pages, remote file system. We do not have compute servers or support any such.

So we can install eagle on a server, with a filing system that is exported. But the installed files, seen by a workstation as a remote file system, would have to run on the workstation. I would think this model (no compute server) is quite common in universities? Most of our software runs with a remote license manager that allows site licenses or floating seat licenses.

Best wishes, Tom