[IPython-dev] Deploying IPython on Windows campus network
Chris Friedline
cfriedline at vcu.edu
Wed Mar 12 10:55:21 EDT 2014
Hi Johann,
That path is controlled by the environment variable, IPYTHONDIR, which
your windows admin could set on the boxes via Group Policy.
See here for more info: http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/config/intro.html
HTH,
Chris
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NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA 23284
http://chris.friedline.net
Johann Rohwer wrote:
> We are trying to deploy IPython on our Windows campus network using Microsoft
> Application Virtualization technology. On our campus network all users have a
> home directory which is automounted as the network drive H:\ upon login. What
> is the easiest way to tell IPython to use H:\.ipython or H:\ipython as the
> configuration directory for IPython? (If I am not mistaken the home drive is
> set by the environment variable %HOMEDRIVE% under Windows).
>
> Unfortunately I am not very familiar with Windows (using Linux myself) and our
> Windows sysadmin has limited python knowledge. Currently our installation is
> working, but upon startup the current working directory is set to
> C:\Windows\system32 which is not writeable for normal users - this is
> expecially problematic for the notebook which won't start up because of a lack
> of write permission. Also the IPython config directory defaults to C:
> \Users\%USERNAME%\.ipython which is machine specific, and we would like it to
> be under a user's network home directory.
>
> We are using the Anaconda python distribution.
>
> Any pointers would be appreciated.
> Regards,
> Johann
>
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