>From: Anthony James Wimmers <address@hidden>
>Organization: UVa
>Keywords: 200002031536.IAA25399 user accounts
Tony,
>Jennie wanted me to write you today. We're trying to set up the
>environment for a new student, Shali, and everyting works but her ADDE
>links. I think her instructions say it all:
>
>1) contact Tom, I spent a little while looking at Shali's environment
>(being interuppted by phone calls), and I couldn't figure out what was
>missing relative to mine. I think each user need to have a DATALOC
>command run, but I cannot remember what file gets created from
>this....just explain to Tom that the DSSERVE command cannot locate any
>data, and then find out whats missing.
If the 'mcidas' account has correctly setup DATALOCs, and if the user's
account is setup so that MCTABLE_READ has included the
~mcidas/data/ADDESITE.TXT file, then the user's ADDE "links" should work.
Assuming that the student's login name is shali, then her MCTABLE_READ
should look like:
MCTABLE_READ="${MCDATA}/MCTABLE.TXT;/home/mcidas/data/ADDESITE.TXT"
In the above, MCDATA would be defined to be (assuming ~shali is /home/shali):
MCDATA=/home/shali/mcidas/data
This tells her McIDAS-X session to first look in the
~shali/mcidas/data/MCTABLE.TXT for the dataset being requested. If the
dataset is not defined there, the file /home/mcidas/data/ADDESITE.TXT
is then searched.
If this is not working for Shali, then I would investigate any of
three possibilities:
o DATALOCs have been done for Shali so that the datasets are defined in
her mcidas/data/MCTABLE.TXT file; these definitions may be wrong
o the 'mcidas' account has not setup the systemwide DATALOCs that should
occupy ~mcidas/data/ADDESITE.TXT
o Shali's account has no DATALOCs setup which will mean that the McIDAS
programs in her session will look for data as LOCAL-DATA. For this
to work, her McIDAS-X session must:
o be able to locate McIDAS data files (i.e. have REDIRECTions setup
correctly
o must have defined which files comprise which data sets
As a response to Jennie's last comment, the various files that are used
to setup data access in Unidata McIDAS are:
file purpose
------------+-------------------------------------------------------------
LOCAL.NAM REDIRECTions valid for the site's environment
LOCDATA.BAT DATALOCs for the site's environment
LSSERVE.BAT DSSERVEs for the site's environment
My recommendation is that all users except 'mcidas' access data files
through the site's remote ADDE server. This way, the users' accounts
do not have to have REDIRECTions setup to find McIDAS data files, nor
do they have to have DSSERVEs setup to define dataset contents.
So, I would have recommended that the DATALOCs in LOCDATA.BAT (which is/
should be located in the ~mcidas/data directory) look like:
DATALOC ADD RTGRIDS windfall.evsc.virginia.edu
DATALOC ADD RTIMAGES windfall.evsc.virginia.edu
DATALOC ADD RTNIDS windfall.evsc.virginia.edu
DATALOC ADD RTNOWRAD windfall.evsc.virginia.edu
DATALOC ADD RTPTSRC windfall.evsc.virginia.edu
DATALOC ADD RTWXTEXT windfall.evsc.virginia.edu
DATALOC ADD TOPO windfall.evsc.virginia.edu
Since you are not getting NIDS or NOWrad (tm) data, the DATALOCs for these
datasets are not needed and may be left out (commented out in LOCDATA.BAT
by putting a 'REM ' at the beginning of the line).
If you have other, local datasets (meaning that they don't have the standard
names sent out in the Unidata McIDAS-X distribution), then you should add
DATALOCs to those datasets in LOCDATA.BAT.
The above is covered in:
Configuring Unidata McIDAS-X Accounts
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/mcidas/mcx/config_mcx.html
1.Configuring the mcidas Account
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/mcidas/mcx/config_mcidas.html
2.Configuring User Accounts
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/mcidas/mcx/config_users.html
Please let me know if the above doesn't get you going.
>Thanks,
>Tony
Tom
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