Hi I am responsible for a lab of around 300 computers for graduate students. They use Novell logins as network logins and all of them use the same local user on the machine to log on. The machines are set up so that no settings remain on the machine after login(previous users login data on local machine is deleted).
I would like to give the students a choice of choosing either MS office or OpenOffice. My problem is to protect OpenOffice from the students. When I am finished with the machine I want every user that log into the machine to have the same settings I have left for them, not saving any settings the previous logged in user has made. So far I have been successfull with the lockdown by removing write/modify rights from the user in almost all the directories in the DocumentsAndSettings\StudentUser\ApplicationData\OpenOffice\user directory. However I don't feel this is the best way to do a lock down. Are there any other way? It is not required that the user be able to change any settings from the Tools|Options section. If I however stay with permissions on the users home directory, is there anything that I should be watching for that might crash office? I have found that locking the registry directory causes a freeze in OpenOffice Writer's startup. I am currently testing the setup with OpenOffice 2 Beta 1974 on Windows XP SP2 with Java 1.4.2 also on the system installed. Thankyou for any help or suggestions. Regards Tinus ---------------------------------------- J.M.A. Kotzé NARGA Technical Official University of Stellenbosch, South Africa Tel: +27 21 808 2562 ---------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
