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

 

http://lifehacker.com/assets/resources/2007/06/OpenOfficeSpeed.png

 

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.