Re: [h-e-w] NTEmacs Network installation for multiusers

[jasonr]

I have found that putting your HOME directory on
a network drive causes Emacs to lock up whenever the
network is down (too frequently on Windows networks).

So now I keep minimal configuration in my .emacs which
is local to each machine, and put most things in
the site-start.el and default.el files that are in
a networked site-lisp directory.
If you call the site-lisp directory site-lisp, and
put it on the same machine as the emacs directory, at
the same level in the directory heirarchy, then
Emacs will automatically pick it up.

Recent files are of course local, since they are
stored in the HOME directory. But unless they are
all networked files, or are duplicated across all
machines, they won't be much use on other machines anyway.


> I want to be able to use NTemacs on different machines
> all using 
> Windows 2000 each having access to a shared network
> driver. However, 
> I want to be able to have the same configuration when
> I move between 
> machines (recent files, .el packages, etc)
> 
> To achieve this I was thinking of installing emacs on
> a shared 
> network drive. Everyone who wants to use emacs would
> use this network
> installation. I can then easily install new packages
> or change 
> configurations files without having to do this on each
> individual 
> machine for each individual user.
> 
> If anyone has experince of this please let me know if
> there is any 
> problem (or indeed any benefits) using this shared
> network 
> installation. Or is there another way to achieve the
> same thing which 
> someone has tried and tested?
> 
> Thanks,
> BM
> 
> 
> 
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