OpenOffice problem - can open just one session

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Sergio Dicandia wrote:

> >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.
> 
> This was done to avoid creating different users for all the children
> accessing the computers (more than 400, with a 20% turnover every year,
> working on 10 thin clients ...): it looked easier to create a generic
> user per class (for a total of 5 classes), and logging all children with
> the same account, since they access the lab a class at a time.  

I can understand that.  There are ways to create multiple accounts quickly,
but if you really don't want to, one account per machine is probably the
least you should do. 

> Is it so bad having an automatic logon for each thin client ? This would
> avoid creating a huge number of accounts ... Any trouble you are aware of
> ?
 
That would be the way to go alright, create a machine for each account and
set them to autologin.

Gavin