On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:51:11AM +1100, mick wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if it where possible to have a central server for star office > and have it start up at boot with the server and then be accesible to network > uses.
ok, let me get this straight - you want to have a copy of staroffice constantly running but not visible, and you want to be able to have it appear on users desktops on demand? Essentially screen for X. If that is right then you want something a lot like VNC but probably less sucky (note: I've only tried it for contacting windows computers, so it might suck less for linux->linux, I don't know). I've heard of a program called xproxy, but I don't know if it exists (btw, if it does exist I'd love a link to it) However, some issues to be aware of: 1. You really want to be running a copy of staroffice per user using it - otherwise users won't be able to save files in their home directories without removing all security on the system. 2. 1 means your system will probably be way into swap and really slow, thereby probably negating any advantage to doing this. It's an interesting idea though. One possibility is to use th XDM setup others have suggested on this thread and have Staroffice loaded in each users .xsession - then it loads as the user logs on. With appropriate fiddling you could make it start "minimised" so it wouldn't be in the way when people didn't need it. I don't think that it would really be worth the trouble on a relatively fast computer. Definitely follow the XDM thing up though - we do that in my house and it works really nicely. It's also nice because I only ever need to fix my comptuer (which admittedly, I'm constantly breaking :)) I'll probably get bitten for saying this but if load times on SO are unacceptable (as they were the last time I played with it), you might actually wanna try running MS-Office 97 under Wine. Last I tried it it was much faster than Staroffice. HTH James. -- "The Greatest Common Divisor is a curious concept in mathematics in that it is defined by its name. " -- Number Theory and Algebra, Terry Gagen. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
