[hobbit] Windows Client

[Galen Johnson]

ZanDAhaR wrote:

> Brodie, Kent wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know if there's going to be a gui wrapper around the 
>> config of this?    I am reasonably impressed by the window client's 
>> abilities (just fired it up on one of my windows nodes), but I can 
>> tell that the windows sysadmins here will be a bit put off by having 
>> to manually make registry entries, and manually edit the xml config 
>> file.   (It's one thing for us unix-dudes(or dudettes) to edit hobbit 
>> config items, but I know the windows guys like the gui way.    The 
>> (older, yet still mostly functional) BBNT client is quite easy to 
>> install, configure, and run.    I'm hoping that's what we ultimately 
>> end up with for the hobbit windows client!
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------
>> Kent C. Brodie - brodie at phys.mcw.edu
>> Department of Physiology
>> Medical College of Wisconsin
>> (414) 456-8590
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Frédéric Mangeant [mailto:frederic.mangeant at steria.com] Sent: 
>> Tuesday, August 01, 2006 9:39 AM
>> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Windows Client
>>
>> Le 01/08/2006 08:20, Everett, Vernon a écrit :
>>  
>>
>>> Hi all
>>>  
>>> I have been asleep for a while, and not monitoring what's been going 
>>> on, but can anybody tell me the status of the Windows client?
>>> When I last paid close attention to the list, the client was in 
>>> beta, and if I recall, did a pretty OK job. (I installed it on a 
>>> test system)
>>> But that was at the old job.
>>>  
>>> New job, new Hobbit installation, and the Windoze crowd want to see 
>>> the client.
>>>  
>>> What's news?
>>>     
>>
>>
>>
>> 0.8 has been released :-)
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=597086
>>
>>   
>
> I had been very wary of this client until about 10 mins ago when I 
> installed and configured it and I also must say I'm reasonably 
> impressed. The migrate from BBNT script had me up and running in about 
> 60 seconds without having to worry about the config file and setting 
> everything from scartch.
>
> Is there a separate mailing list for the windows client or are we all 
> putting together here on the hobbit list ?
>
> I have a few more questions and want to make sure they are going to 
> the right place :)
>
> Cheers
>
> Allan
>
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