Two instances of OpenOffice on thin clients.

Daniel Carrera daniel.carrera at zmsl.com
Tue Jun 13 13:56:15 UTC 2006


Hello,

I'm having a problem with OpenOffice on thin clients.

These are thin clients for a primary school. There are only 6 user 
accounts, one for each year. The head teacher really likes this idea 
because it is very simple (we are talking about 3 and 5 year olds here) 
and still gives the pupils a UI customized for their year group.

The PROBLEM with this is that we have 16 users using the same account at 
the same time. Most programs work fine in this setup, but not OpenOffice:

1. Student 1 goes to a thin client and starts OpenOffice - no problem.
2. Student 2 goes to another thin client and starts OpenOffice.
3. Instead of student 2 seeing an OOo window, the window appears in 
student 1's account.

I need to find a way to have OpenOffice appear on the terminal where it 
was called. Does anyone have any ideas?

Yes, I realize that this is not the "expected" setup. But this setup is 
very darn useful for a primary school, and here we have a real life 
primary school head teacher asking for this setup.

Cheers,
Daniel.
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