Office 2004/Remote Home Directory

[pbwh]

Hi all- My hair is turning gray over this. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

We installed Office 2004 on our Macs and everything works great so long
as the user's home directory is set locally. However, we need to set
up a remote home directory so that the user's folders are stored on the
network. When we do this, we start to see a lot of problems on all the
Office apps and any app that uses an Office app (Adobe). Another issue
is that Adobe prompts for username/pwd. when we open a file logged in
with non-admin accounts. I believe the OLE Registration Database 11
has become corrupt and admin. rights are needed to fix it.

One workaround we tried was to copy the local users
~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft folder to the server but this works
intermittenly and we have too many machines (this is a company-wide
issue) to do this for. We also have to recopy again each time the user
installs a new app, so this isn't a viable workaround for us.

I've seen some postings but wanted a little clarity on this. Is this a
known issue? If so, is there another workaround? Thanks in advance
for any input!

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

We installed Office 2004 on our Macs and everything works great so long
as the user's home directory is set locally. However, we need to set
up a remote home directory so that the user's folders are stored on the
network.

How did you do that ?? Did you re-specify the location in the NetInfo
Database or did you just create a symlink ?? (actually I would use
both...)

Corentin

 

[pbwh]

Hello-

I didn't personally set it up but I believe it was with the NetInfo
database. Have you seen this issue before? I've read a couple of old
postings saying that Remote Home Dir. are not supported in Office2004
(hence why we have so many problems) but I have seen nothing 'official'
that I can relay or get closure from. Thanks!

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Hello-

I didn't personally set it up but I believe it was with the NetInfo
database. Have you seen this issue before?

I have seen a LOT of similar problems with Office X.
Office 2004 fixed most of them, but I've only used that for user folders
on different drives, not on a network drive.

I've read a couple of old
postings saying that Remote Home Dir. are not supported in Office2004
(hence why we have so many problems) but I have seen nothing 'official'
that I can relay or get closure from. Thanks!

Try creating a symlink in /Users that would point to the networ home
folder.

You could try something like that in the Terminal

cd ~/; pwd

that would give you the full address of your Home directory (something
like /Volumes/NetDrive/Users/Corentin)

Then type:

cd /Users
sudo ln -s /Volumes/NetDrive/Users/Corentin

Of yourse, you need to replace the path I entered in the latest command
with the one that applies to your own Home directory.

It *might* do the trick. In any case, it can't do much harm since all
you are doing there is creating a "UNIX" alias for your account in
/Users that points to the actual network location.

Corentin