Hi, if someone has real experience setting up TeXLive for PCs in a 
shared lab situation, and wouldn't mind answering a few questions 
privately, could you please e-mail me.

Specifically I'm interested in how to set things up so that users' local 
texmf tree is set to AFS space that is mapped to a network drive, and 
also to find out if there are any pitfalls I may fall into using TeXLive 
in a lab situation.

Thanks

Alan

Alan Munn wrote:
> Hi, if someone has real experience setting up TeXLive for PCs in a 
> shared lab situation, and wouldn't mind answering a few questions 
> privately, could you please e-mail me.
> 
> Specifically I'm interested in how to set things up so that users' local 
> texmf tree is set to AFS space that is mapped to a network drive, and 
> also to find out if there are any pitfalls I may fall into using TeXLive 
> in a lab situation.

I'm afraid I have no further advance since we last discussed this (10 
Oct 2007) in thread "TeX Live or MikTeX for computer lab installation?"

The only solutions I haven't tested yet were from Hans Fredrik Nordhaug 
on 11 Oct 2007):

> 1) There is nothing stopping you from defining many local texmf trees
>    - one for each of the possible drive letters for the USB stick.
> 2) Since the FNDB is stored in the profile, the students can update
>    the FNDB themselves if they happen to put the stick in another drive
>    than the usual one. 

For (2), does this mean that a new user (student logging into the system 
for the very first time) won't have an FNDB yet? If so, what would they 
need to do on that occasion to create one so that they can start using 
TeX?

///Peter