Richard:
I am quite confused by what is happening.
You write:
1. I logged out and logged back in as katrina, clicked on the setup icon
I do not use any icon but run it from the command line. See my original
instructions at step 2.
So, I would suggest to nuke everything and restart over:
1. su - root
2. rm -rf /opt/office52
3. exit
4. as each user: rm -rf ./office52 ( backup any files in your SO working
directory before doing this! )
5. reinstall as root: ./setup -net
6. as each user: /opt/office52/program/setup and follow the instructions.
Do not use any icons. Start first from the command line for each user. Then
you can create a desktop icon for your users.
If you do it exactly like this and you still have problems make sure you have
a valid installation file from Sun Corp.
Ciao,
Eric Indiogine
On Friday 08 June 2001 15:17, you wrote:
> 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.
