Running Open Office from a network Share?

[Kyle]

I know Open Office can be run from a network share, but how successful/reliable is it?

For example how wool it handle it if 100/150 users were to access it at once?


Does anyone use it this way or do you deploy it or add it to an image?

[Butuz]

Because its coded using bloaty rubbish java- it will probably hit your network quite hard if 100+ users at a time.

I would deploy it - it runs slow enough coming off a nice fast hard drive!

Andrew

[CyberNerd]

I would deploy it - it runs slow enough coming off a nice fast hard drive!

to speed change these settings and put in your mandatory profile, also start with -nofirststartwizard



a quick compare of sizes gives~:
OpenOffice.org portable (network share) 180 MB
openOffice.org installed 270MB
Office 2000 (clipart) 340MB
Office 2003 269 MB

[Geoff]

Also disabling Java helps

[Kyle]

also start with -nofirststartwizard

Where do i put this?

Edit the shortcut paths?

I would like to add this Open Office ideally on a image but because they all have mandatory profiles they always get the wizard at programme launch.


Will the above stop this?

[CyberNerd]

Where do i put this?

Edit the shortcut paths?

yep.

If you're using this method you'll also need to change the image so that the file extension opens with the -nofirststartwizard switch ( I did using the ftype command http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man1/ftype.1.asp )
or use the openoffice portable.