<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">>Hi,<br>><br>>On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Sergio Dicandia wrote:<br>><br>>> Everything went (almost) fine, except that I have a strange behaviour
on<br>>> thin clients: logging on different clients with the same account,
when I<br>>> launch OpenOffice Writer, it shows on just one client (not always the
one<br>>> I run it from). <br>><br>>This is because openoffice is already running once for that user and it<br>>won't create a second parallel instance, it will simply open an extra<br>>window in the first instance.<br>><br>>> The same happens with other apps, but not browsing resources, when I
get<br>>> a separate windows for each client. I checked the options and I
already<br>>> set them so that it allows different sessions when logging with the
same<br>>> account.<br>>> Of course it makes the whole thing a complete failure, since we need
to<br>>> have different clients accessing with the same account and running<br>>> separate instances of Writer (or other apps).<br>><br>>I would seriously consider creating accounts for each user and if you<br>>_really_ can't do that, you could create accounts for each thin client.<br>>This is not a nice way to work at all though.<br><br>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.<br>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 ?<br><br>>If you try to start firefox on two thin clients with the same account
it<br>>will usually complain for the same reason -- what happens when two<br>>instances of firefox have the bookmark file open. <br>><br>> Instance 1 and 2 start. <br>> Instance 1 adds a bookmark and saves bookmarks. <br>> Instance 2 adds a bookmark and saves bookmarks.<br>> <br>>Now Instance 1's changes are lost. This is only a small example of how<br>>messy things can get when two programs work of the same instance. It's<br>>true of openoffice and firefox and most other programs.<br>><br>>You really shouldn't log in the same account in multiple places.<br>> <br>>Gavin<br></div><br><br>Thanks a lot<br></div></div><br>
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