bkr009
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Weekly, I run a video game club at my school.
The school media lab allows us to use their pcs (25) and download games onto them.
With the limited funds we have, we purchased some steam games.
Each steam game is tied to an individual account. This way, one person playing one game, doesn't prevent another from playing a different one.
A few hours before our club meetings, we need to make sure all our games are up to date. We don't want anyone having to sit through valuable gaming time for updates. Logging into an account (we have like 18), waiting for a game to update, repeating that for 17 more accounts, and then doing it all over for 25 pcs total is INSANE! That's just too much work.
So our plan was to use steam family share to share all the games to 1 account and have that account login and update all the games. It would make life much easier! The problem is that steam family share only allows sharing to 10 specified pcs total (we had assumed any account authorized could use any number of pcs).
One suggestion I saw online was to use sandboxie to run multiple steam accounts at once (to download updates), but I'd like to see if freeNAS would work for us.
We have an extra pc that a member is willing to donate to the club. It has a 1tb HHD (no ssd) and 16gb DDR4 Ram and GTX 1060, so I'm thinking it should work.
What we're hoping is that we can update 1 pc and then use the network to access its storage to copy over all the files to the others.
Are we correct to assume this would work?
What would you guys suggest?
The school media lab allows us to use their pcs (25) and download games onto them.
With the limited funds we have, we purchased some steam games.
Each steam game is tied to an individual account. This way, one person playing one game, doesn't prevent another from playing a different one.
A few hours before our club meetings, we need to make sure all our games are up to date. We don't want anyone having to sit through valuable gaming time for updates. Logging into an account (we have like 18), waiting for a game to update, repeating that for 17 more accounts, and then doing it all over for 25 pcs total is INSANE! That's just too much work.
So our plan was to use steam family share to share all the games to 1 account and have that account login and update all the games. It would make life much easier! The problem is that steam family share only allows sharing to 10 specified pcs total (we had assumed any account authorized could use any number of pcs).
One suggestion I saw online was to use sandboxie to run multiple steam accounts at once (to download updates), but I'd like to see if freeNAS would work for us.
We have an extra pc that a member is willing to donate to the club. It has a 1tb HHD (no ssd) and 16gb DDR4 Ram and GTX 1060, so I'm thinking it should work.
What we're hoping is that we can update 1 pc and then use the network to access its storage to copy over all the files to the others.
Are we correct to assume this would work?
What would you guys suggest?