File Server Organization

Plans:

A local NT domain will be set up in the display wall lab with restricted administrator privileges.

Two file servers will be set up Wallfs and Vizfs. Wallfs will be the display wall file server (binaries, scripts, content), and Vizfs will be the visualization data fileserver. Except for user directories these file servers will be read only.

Wallfs will have a file structure as follows:

Displaywall
    Release  (stable, static version)
            Bin
            Doc
            SourceSafe-tag
     Dev  (in-house working version)
            Bin
            Doc
            SourceSafe-tag
    Demo (self contained demos)
            Moon_scapes
                        Bin
                        Content
            Tiger_hall
                        Bin
                        Content
    Users (users content and code related to display wall – individual and group access)
            Cs598d
                        gwallace
                        snd
            Cs495
            Developers
                        yuqun

Note: All scripts and binaries should use relative paths when accessing files and should get the current working directory from the env variables. This will facilitate ease of file structure reorganization in the future.

Time Line:

02/28/2000 - Last demo, projectors sent out for repair

02/29/2000 - Dwarfs-2 upgraded and converted to Wallfs

03/06/2000 - Local NT domain setup

03/08/2000 - New file structure in place on Wallfs