Hi Tim,

Nice talking with you today.

As I said, I think you'd be best served with a 25 user
license of Office 2.0.

I'm including a download key for you to try, along
with long instructions on how to enable the shared
global mode.

Cheers,

Jeremy

CrossOver Download Request
----------------------------------------

Follow the instructions below to download CrossOver Office.
Please note the download link provided here will expire 72 hours
from when we sent this email.

1.) Go to this URL:
http://crossover.codeweavers.com/download/office/

2.) Enter the following into the form:

Product:	CrossOver Office
Access Key:	tskirvin@ks.uiuc.edu
Serial Number:	[snip]

3.) Start the download, and save the file to your
    hard disk, e.g. ~/install-crossover-office-2.0.0.sh

4.) Execute the single shell script in a terminal, e.g.:
      sh ~/install-crossover-office-2.0.0.sh

5.) Enjoy!



CrossOver Office provides two facilities - the ability to have
a 'shared global' installation as well as the ability
to generate RPMs of configurations to customers that
have purchased a multiple user license.

The shared global installation allows the system
administrator to install a single copy of Windows
applications to create a virtual image.  This virtual
image is then shared by every user, with each user
having a small writeable area of their own.

The buildrpm facility lets you take a shared global
installation and bundle it into an rpm for simple
replication onto other machines.

These features are actually present within CrossOver Office,
but are disabled by default.

This is in part because these features can cause problems
if an exact process is not followed.  It is also in
part because we choose to primarily support these
features for folks that have purchased multi user
licenses.

This email gives you short instructions on how to
enable these features, and how to avoid some of the
more common problems of this mode.

First, this process works best when done on a clean
system with no CrossOver (or all CrossOver removed).
You start the process by installing CrossOver Office
as the root user.  When this process is done, you
should exit without running the Office configuration
program.

Next, take the attached cxmultiuser script file,
and copy it to /opt/cxoffice/bin/.

Next, still as root, you should run the following
in a terminal window:
  /opt/cxoffice/bin/cxmultiuser
This will convert your CrossOver Office installation
into a shared global system.

Finally, to install applications globally, log in
as root and run the CrossOver Configuration utility.
*IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT THAT YOU ONLY INSTALL
AS ROOT BUT NEVER RUN THE APPLICATIONS AS THE ROOT USER*.

Everything you do as the root user affects all users,
and certain files can be made that require write access,
which not all users will have.

Once you have the applications installed, then as a regular
user you should log in and run the applications.
A virtual environment should be created in the users
~/.cxoffice directory, and they should be up and running
quickly.  The same should be true for all users on the
system.

Finally, to replicate this configuration, change to
a working directory and invoke the following in a terminal:
   /opt/cxoffice/bin/buildrpm.sh <tag>
where <tag> is a descriptive name of your choosing.
After a fairly lengthy set of processing, you should
have an rpm in the i386/ subdirectory.

If you have any questions or concerns about this support,
please send email to office-support@codeweavers.com.



On, Mon 2003-04-21 at 15:45, Tim Skirvin wrote:
> Robert Anderson <sales@codeweavers.com> writes:
> =20
> > I wanted to follow up with you to see how your evaluation of our
> > Crossover Server software is going. What step on the evaluation
> > checklist have you made it to? Please contact me at your earliest
> > convenience to give me an update on your progress, or with any
> questions
> > that you may have.
> > Tracking Number: 39231
> 
> 	I haven't really had a whole lot of chance to do much besides try
> installing it.  This went okay, but not perfectly, so I wasn't able to
> put
> it into place and really test it out with a lot of users...and I'm not
> sure I'll have time to do so for about two months. =20
> 
> 	It is an excellent solution for our laptops, however, so I am
> still interested in getting us at least some copies in the short term...
> 
>                             - Tim Skirvin (tskirvin@ks.uiuc.edu)
> --
>    Theoretical and Computational    http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~tskirvin/
> Biophysics, Beckman Institute, UIUC    Senior Systems Administrator
> 
> 


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