Win 98 and Office 2000

[ginfest]

Hi,
One of my network boxes is a Win 98 SE box. There are 3 users set up, myself for admin purposes when I need to access network shares on my Win XP box, and my two sons each have an acct on the Win 98SE box. I installed Office 2000 under one of the accounts. The other accts show the Office shortcuts and save files with the ".doc" extensions, but can't open Word or Excel or access anything with a ".doc or .xml" extension?
Does Office have to be installed for each user under Win 98? When the other user accts try to access anything Office, an error pops up.
I know this isn't too clear, but does anyone have any experience with Win 98SE, Office 2K and multiple users?
I can't seem to find any info on the MS site, any help welcome,
TIA,
Mike G

 

[EagleKeeper]

Access (and I suspect Office) must either be installed on each system, an user must start the app from the network system (same as a remote drive), or (And I am not certain of this) configure their system to know where the apps are.

With Access, only one person can be working in a database at a time if they are using option 2. Therre is some type of lock file that is stored with the physical database. I am not sure if this lock is per database.

Also, all these comments are based on Office 97.

 

[ginfest]

I probably didn't explain correctly. Office 2K is installed on the Win XP machine and works for all users. Office 2K is installed on the Win 98SE machine also, it was installed under one user name, but won't work for any of the other users who log in (locally) to the Win 98Se machine. My understanding of your post is that it concerns the networking aspects of Office, if so my mistake for mentioning the network.
To recap, Office 2K was installed on a Win 98SE machine, under one user and although the shortcuts show up on the start menu and the main Office folder and the Office apps show up in Win Explorer, Office 2K only works when that user logs in, not the others.
Thanks for the tips,
mike G

 

[EagleKeeper]

What are the nasty messages you keep getting.

I may try to duplicate this on a Win98SE system at home. I know that different users on the Win98SE system can use Office97 apps with no problem.

 

[ginfest]

When anyone(except the user where Office was installed) tries to open a file , say "xxx.doc" or clicks on Word.exe or any Office app, the error is "The Windows Installer failed to install the program associated with this file. Please contact your Sys Admin". As I said, all Office apps and files work for the one user, not the other two.


edit; this error seems to me to indicate that Office and it's apps haven't been registered under the other two users? Not sure how to do this other than re-install 3 times, although that seems illogical to me?
Must be an easier way, although the MS site is sorely lacking any info on this. I'll check the Win 98SE Control Panel under "Users", maybe a clue there.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Try to install the package when you are the default user. ie. cancel the user id when requested at login.

 

[BreakApart]

Yes, Office will have to be installed under EACH users Win98 profile.

If Office had been installed BEFORE the user profiles were created then they would have retained the Office registry enties from the default profile setup, but since it was installed AFTER the profiles were created they do NOT get to share all the correct Office registry entries.

Jsut run the install for each user and all will be fine.

 

[BreakApart]

<< Try to install the package when you are the default user. ie. cancel the user id when requested at login. >>



This may work, never tried it, but it won't hurt anything to try.