Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 19364
Mismatched Profile Directories on Nt/2000 giving problems
Last modified: 2003-09-25 12:00:03 UTC
I'm running a mixed network of NT4 and 2000 clients, using OOrc on a -net installation, in a school environment where the users use both clients. As NT stores its profile in c:\winnt\profiles, and 2K stores it in c:\Documents and Settings\ , I have seen that the user setup config is stored in the right place (and hence re-loaded in the right place when that user next logs on to the different OS). However, the sversion.ini file is giving a problem, as it points to the original installation directory (i.e on a 2K box c:\Documents and Settings\MYUSER\Application Data ...). If a user logs onto a NT box and attempts to execute OO, then the error: "The App cannot be started - the config Dir c:\Documents and settings\MYUSER\application data\OpenOffice.org1.1 could not be found. I've found that if the content of the sversion.ini file is edited to point to the correct location, the application works fine.
Hi Skotti, do we have such a mixed up test environment? Do you see a chance to handle such a case in OOo?
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Hi AshG, this indeed is not possible. sversion.ini contains an absolute path to the installation. Since the path is different in your two environments this will not work. The solution would be to create a network share on the server that always gets attached to the same driveletter on all machines and to put your installation there. Additinally you should redirect "Application Data" per Domain Policy. This would be the clean way. There might be another way - which i did not test, but it might work: Have a look at the file \program\bootstrap.ini and modify it to your needs.
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