<admin@kilnar.com> wrote: On 16 Jan 2001, V O Y A G E R wrote: > I want to install a StarOffice 5.2 server for my LAN which has mix > operating systems. The operating systems are Windows 95, Windows NT > 4.0 Windows 2000 and Red Hat Linux. > > All people on LAN will use this server from their workstations that > have mixed operating systems on their end. And save all office > documents on that server. > > I am not sure that how it is possible. The help with staroffice says > that one can use startoffice for multi users on same system on which > it is installed. It do not say anything how it can be used in the > situations which I have. StarOffice can be installed on a central server from which people can run it, but if you install the Linux flavor of StarOffice, then only Linux people will be able to run it... even if Windows can access the binaries. This means that even if I configure samba on StartOffice Server (Running Linux) and Windows XX computers can list binaries on that server, these Windows XX would not be able to run Star Office. This means that windos machines would not be able to use this server as office server. So it may be concluded that StartOffice can not be use in Hetrogenous LAN set up. Am I right???? .. As far as I know, StarOffice does not offer an file sharing capabilities. You are looking for Samba which will allow you to create a Windows-like fileshare on a Linux box that people can access across the network. This will allow people to save their work in a shared environment which will allow for collaboration, easy backups and other benefits. -- John Evans ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
