[Wylug-help] Small Office set-up

[Simon Wood]

You can install open-office (and StarOffice) in a 'multi user' mode, see:

http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-source.html#11

Basically you do one install as root for the programs and then 'setup' as e=
ach user to generate the support directories in each user's home directory.


In order to share the files, the normal Linux file permission system will e=
nable you to use 'Groups' to allow only specific users to files. Users can =
belong to more than one group.

If you 'ls -al' you will see 3 sets of 'wrx' permissions and the owner and =
group for each file. The first 'wrx' is for the owner, the second for the g=
roup and third for everyone else.


These files can be place in a central location (i.e. /home/files), although=
 this does not provide file locking - so two users could be editing the fil=
e, the second to save will remove the changes of the first. This won't be a=
 problem if only one user will be using the system at one time (only one ke=
yboard ;-).

Hope this helps.

Simon Wood.


-----Original Message-----
From: Yaseen Saddique [mailto:yaseen@amuro.net]
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 2:16 PM
To: wylug-help@wylug.org.uk
Subject: [Wylug-help] Small Office set-up


Hi All,

can you please advise on how I can setup linux/office for all users on a si=
ngle PC ?.

So they can share/access documents written in Staroffice etc. I don't fancy=
 installing a copy for each user on the same PC !!

I am using Suse 7.2 on a Pentium 2 300MMX. The PC is shared by several user=
s.

Many Thanks
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