Issue 22663 - Multiple user support *fails* on windows
Summary: Multiple user support *fails* on windows
Status: CLOSED NOT_AN_OOO_ISSUE
Alias: None
Product: General
Classification: Code
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1
Hardware: Other Windows ME
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: thorsten.martens
QA Contact: issues@framework
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Reported: 2003-11-20 07:29 UTC by keybounce
Modified: 2003-11-20 09:42 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description keybounce 2003-11-20 07:29:03 UTC
Open office 1.1 does not properly support multiple users on windows.

Right now, I have OO 1.1 installed on one hard drive, on one machine (Win ME). 
That hard drive is network exported to other machines (Win 98). I tried doing 
an install on those machines, specifying a install destination of the network 
file server; when asked "overwrite these files?", I said "Do not overwrite 
anything".

The result?

Instead of being installed in S:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org1.1.0\, with 
relative directories for everything from there, it has a bunch of fully 
qualified absolute pathnames stored around, and when I try to save a file, it 
wants to find stuff in C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org1.1.0\user\...

If I run the program on the server, I'm told "Having multiple copies open at 
once can lead to inconsistencies; please make sure So-and-so on machine such-
and-such stops using this program".

Now, I can't imagine any unix installation accepting this -- unix would require 
that multiple users can run this from /usr/local/bin at the same time, with 
personal data stored in ~/.OpenOffice.org1.1.0/ or something like that. And, 
windows does -- ever since windows 95 -- support multiple users. [Heck, XP Home 
even supports multiple users logged on at once.] Between My Documents, or %
userprofile%\Application Data\, or just "Please enter the directory where your 
personal configuation settings will be stored" (heck, netscape/mozilla lets me 
create multiple profiles, with different profiles stored in different 
directories, even without Terminal Services's support for multiple users).

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Michael
Comment 1 Olaf Felka 2003-11-20 09:42:09 UTC
Works as designed. See
http://documentation.openoffice.org/setup_guide/index.html
Comment 2 Olaf Felka 2003-11-20 09:42:41 UTC
More informatio you will get at users@openoffice.org