Multiple computer patching in a lan. Feasible?

[pavar]

Originally Posted by Wintrow

Sweet, I might use this to keep wow on my PCs at home up to date

Well, considering that your post gave me the initial idea, you surely earned it!

[Wintrow]

The only reward I require is the knowledge I have helped someone else have more fun w gaming

[rgirty]

Clavina had it right :D

[Artad]

Originally Posted by pavar

EDIT: solution found!

Out of interest how are you finding Freenas? What spec machine are you running it on?
I use OpenFiler myself, great for what I use it for (iSCSI Target server for VMware Vsphere server).

One thing I would also consider if you're running this in a Lan Cafe environment is Faronic's Deep Freeze, that would allow you to reset each machine every night to a specified level. Why? Because you don't want people installing things willy nilly, using Deep Freeze would mean you can take the machines back to how you want it.

Another thing I would also have considered would have been to have a powerful file server hosting the actual WoW binaries and running a single copy of the came over the network instead (as long as the machine had loads of ram to handle multiple requests).

[Wintrow]

App-V ?

Streaming apps from a single server. Wonder how well wow would do on that...

[Artad]

Originally Posted by Wintrow

App-V ?

Streaming apps from a single server. Wonder how well wow would do on that...

ooh, what a good idea. I have an SCCM server I can play with as well :)

[Wintrow]

Originally Posted by Artad

ooh, what a good idea. I have an SCCM server I can play with as well :)

Do let us know. I'm very curious what that'd do...