Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 22663
Multiple user support *fails* on windows
Last modified: 2003-11-20 09:42:41 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). My inbox is spam flooded. If you need to contact me regarding this, please use 805, 640, 1195 Michael
Works as designed. See http://documentation.openoffice.org/setup_guide/index.html
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