Open Office 2

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2005, Rick Sivernell wrote:
>All
>

>I have just downloaded and installed OO 2. Now I have a AMD64 on Suse 9.2
>Pro and open office is extremly fast open and loading a file. Anyone else
>seeing good things here or any got yous'?


When I first installed OO 2.0 on my Linux desktop here, nothing worked
because it was having locking problems on my automounted home directory.

I tracked the problem down to the fact that the the rpc.lockd wasn't
running by default on the FreeBSD server where the home directories live.
Manually starting rpc.lockd on the FreeBSD box fixed the problem.  I added
a line to the /etc/rc.conf file, ``rpc_lockd_enable="YES"'' on the FreeBSD
box so that it will start if I ever have to reboot it again (it's been up
511 days now  which explains why it's still running version 4.8 :-).

I'm also running OO 2.0 on my Mac Mini running ``Tiger'', and that hasn't
given any problems.

Adding the proper JDBC files for mysql and postgresql has it talking to the
back end databases perfectly (once I figured out that you create
connections to data sources from File->New->database instead of from the
data sources dialog which has gone away).

Speaking of database access, I find that the mysql connection allows read
and write access to the database while postgresql is read only.  This is
fine by me since our postgresql databases tend to be things that I don't
want people to be able to change while the mysql ones aren't generally
sensitive, and can be controlled with the appropriate GRANT priviledges.

Bill
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