OpenOffice problem - can open just one session

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Sergio Dicandia wrote:

> Everything went (almost) fine, except that I have a strange behaviour on
> thin clients: logging on different clients with the same account, when I
> launch OpenOffice Writer, it shows on just one client (not always the one
> I run it from). 

This is because openoffice is already running once for that user and it
won't create a second parallel instance, it will simply open an extra
window in the first instance.

> The same happens with other apps, but not browsing resources, when I get
> a separate windows for each client. I checked the options and I already
> set them so that it allows different sessions when logging with the same
> account.

> Of course it makes the whole thing a complete failure, since we need to
> have different clients accessing with the same account and running
> separate instances of Writer (or other apps).

I would seriously consider creating accounts for each user and if you
_really_ can't do that, you could create accounts for each thin client.
This is not a nice way to work at all though.

If you try to start firefox on two thin clients with the same account it
will usually complain for the same reason -- what happens when two
instances of firefox have the bookmark file open.  

	Instance 1 and 2 start.  
	Instance 1 adds a bookmark and saves bookmarks. 
	Instance 2 adds a bookmark and saves bookmarks.
	
Now Instance 1's changes are lost.  This is only a small example of how
messy things can get when two programs work of the same instance.  It's
true of openoffice and firefox and most other programs.

You really shouldn't log in the same account in multiple places.
	
Gavin