On Thursday 07 June 2001 15:42, Richard wrote:
Following your advice with slight modifications I have done the following. My
copy of star office was supplied as something like so-5_2-en.bin this is a
huge executable that you run to install it. I obviously haven't got it quite
right but I am getting there. Thank you for you help with this.
> 1. as root do ./setup -net ( first cd to the directory where the SO5.2
> setup script is )
>
> 2. as _each_ user do /opt/office52/program/setup ( or wherever it is )
>
> 3. choose the default installation, the one that says something like 16
> Mbytes in home directory.
As root changed to the CD and ran s0-5_2-en.bin /net
This installed to the hard drive and didn't bother to prompt me for who I was
or any of the other set information it normally asks for I installed it in
/home/office52
I logged out and logged back in as katrina, clicked on the setup icon and it
set up Star Office in /home/katrina/office52 putting 1.6 meg of files in
there. It worked but not properly as the normal icons on the Star Office
desktop wouldn't load and files couldn't be saved.
su root chmod -R 777 /home/office52 sorted that.
I then did the same for mike but for reasons unknown when attempting to close
down this one it gives "error in opening configuration file" no problem with
katrina just mike very weird.
Work is saved in /home/office52/user/work or something like that. It doesn't
matter if I change the default directory for katrina or mike it automatically
changes it for both of them I have no idea why it would do this as I would
have thought it should have stored in their home directories and not the
network one at all.
That is as far as I have got so far. It is at least possible but there are
configuation files that need working on before it works properly. I have a
second install of Star Office in my own home directory that I use for
business but will be deleting that if I can ever get the network install to
behave properly.
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Regards
Richard
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