[Athen] Dragon Server

[Wink Harner]

Robert,

We set this up at my college in Arizona some years ago. IT can create a
data bank on the main server and in the BIOS system of each computer where
dragon is installed, re-direct the SAVE path for the dragon profiles to go
to the server under the student's profile name instead of the profile being
saved on the local computer(s).

We had the students back up their voice profiles onto flash drives and we
cleaned the data off the servers either once a semester or once per
academic year so as not to clog up space.

Our IT dept was notoriously short of server space so I volunteered a bit of
my budget $$ to purchase several TB of server space just for the dragon
profiles.

Hope this is helpful.

Wink Harner
Accessibility Consultant/Alternative Text Production
The Foreign Type

Portland OR
foreigntype at gmail.com
480-984-0034

This email was dictated using Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Please forgive
quirks, misrecognitions, or errata .


On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 1:48 PM Robert Spangler <rspangler1 at udayton.edu>
wrote:


> Hello, I am writing to see if there is anyone who is using Dragon in a

> multi-user environment.  Currently, we have six testing machines on which

> Dragon is installed.  Rather than have a user create a new dragon profile

> on each machine, we have these set up to use generic Windows accounts, so

> the student logs in using an account called test, and everyone uses the

> same Dragon profile on every computer, which I create upon installing

> Dragon.  However, our IT department is trying to push us away from using

> generic accounts, which is certainly understandable.  I am hoping that we

> can set up Dragon so that our students can create their Dragon profile on

> one machine and have it pull from a server no matter which test workstation

> they are using.

>

> I have downloaded a Dragon Group Server install guide to pass along to our

> IT department, so we can get this started, but I was wondering if there was

> anyone on this list who is using this configuration.  How well does it

> work?  Does the Dragon server actually store the user's voice data, or does

> it just hold custom words and other settings shared among all users?  Do we

> need to have roaming profiles enabled to even use this?  Basically, is what

> I am attempting to accomplish possible?

>

> Thanks!

> Robert

>

>

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