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1. #Netdrive portable install
2. #Netdrive portable update
3. #Netdrive portable portable
4. #Netdrive portable Pc

#Netdrive portable install

Of course you still need to install virus scanners on each machine.A network drive is a storage device on a local access network (LAN) within a business or home. There is nothing important anymore on the computers.

#Netdrive portable portable

Also I can do the updates for the portable apps from one machine for all users.Īlso the backup can be done centrally by backing up all shares with programs and data. When the number of computers matches the number of users its basically the same time consumption. Each installed program has to be updated regularly anyways. I found out that this took me two evenings each time with the variety of programs that are used. Also it saves me the hassle to install and set up each program on each computer I (re-)install Windows on. It is true: updating the portable apps has to be done for each user separately. There is very little to be installed directly on the computers now.

This way everyone has his own programs, settings and data stored on the server while selection of the programs is made by using PStart instead of the Windows Start Menu. Also PStart is linked to the user's desktop. Also I have put in PStart there and provide a selection menu to each user via PStart. In each home share there is a directory specific for the portable apps. Portable Apps work for me flawlessly on a network share at home since years.Įach user has its own home share on a Linux box running Samba. Then, when a new version comes along, you install it onto the network server, and the sync app will automatically deploy it onto each user's PC, but they will still have a local copy with their own private copy of the data folder, which means that they can all run it at the same time.

#Netdrive portable Pc

Then, on each PC that needs to have them useable, do the once-only step of installing a sync app, (something like Syncless would be idea in this case), and configure it to syncronsie just the applicationfolder, not the data ones, from a read-only mount of the fileserver drive onto the local disk. I would suggest that if what you want is to ease installation of updates, then look at something such as, having a network drive where you do a straight install of the apps that you are interested in, but never run them from here. While this may not kill every application, it will most certainly cause problems for the more complex ones, such as OpenOffice, or Firefox Portable. The problem is that if more than one user uses the same installed copy of a Portable App at the same time, then they are sharing the data and configuration files.

Whether you use a network drive, or terminal server, or other method to share the apps. In an other scenario, what will be changed when portable apps is installed on a terminal-server 2003? I read that is not possible, as the file ex firefox, will be used by only one user and for the second user it came out that the application is just in use.

#Netdrive portable update

Now i thought, to not update all the applications on different sticks/hard disk from each user, to install the portable apps in the network file-server so that the users can start it from there and no data will lost when sticks or external hard disks will borken/lost Untill this problems all worked perfekt, updates too. the problem was that i had a problem with the disk, where i saved the portable apps and so i lost my files as the disk was broken. The idea behind is that the application will not be loaded on the usb-stick or lockal external hard disk, but on the file server for more users. Has everybody some experience with using protable apps on a file server in a network, where more than one user can use the applications of portable apps on the same time?