Arthur S. Alexion on Thu, 13 Jun 2002 15:40:20 +0200


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Re: [PLUG] multi-user staroffice


On Wednesday 12 June 2002 12:07 pm, Art Clemons wrote:
> Arthur S. Alexion:
> > I want to install staroffice 5.2 on a multi-user workstation. 
> > Previous installs to a single user workstation were, as suggested
> > by sun, into the user's home directory.
> >
> > There are going to be 4 users on this machine and I see to reason
> > to put the whole thing on the drive 4x.
> >
> > Does anyone have any experience with this?
>
> The simple solution is to do one basic large install in some
> directory, I don't remember what Star actually suggested for 5.2. 
> After doing that installation, log on as one of the users, and then
> try the setup file, it will copy a limited number of files and create
> the files necessary for that user to store workproduct in that user's
> home directory while mostly using the files in the original
> directory.  If I remember correctly, there was about 2 megs per user
> overhead.

Your memory is totally accurate.  What threw me is that the 
documentation consistently refers to this as a network install, as 
opposed to multi-user on a single machine.  Works the same way, though.

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