Can several computers/users access the same profile?

I want to share my zotero database with others. Is that possible? (All of them with the same access level)

Sal,
As this article in the Apple Knowledge Base explains the trick is to move the iTunes Music folder, not the entire iTunes folder, to "a publicly accessible location" and I believe they mean to suggest C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Music as a good place.
It is important that the iTunes Library files remain in Sal's Documents and Sal's Wife's Documents.

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Can multiple XP users access the same iTunes library?

Because I'm having a REALLY hard time getting that to work at all. I've moved my entire iTunes folder into 'Shared Documents' so that all users should be able to access it and changed the option in iTunes Preferences to the correct 'all users' path, but iTunes still tries to find the info in 'my' (sal's) documents instead of 'all.'
Anyone figure this out, or does it somehow break the EULA and isn't supported? The wife and I just want to use the same library since we're on one computer. Seems silly to not allow a user with admin rights to allow other users access.
Thanks,
Sal
Windows XP

Sal,
As this article in the Apple Knowledge Base explains the trick is to move the iTunes Music folder, not the entire iTunes folder, to "a publicly accessible location" and I believe they mean to suggest C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Music as a good place.
It is important that the iTunes Library files remain in Sal's Documents and Sal's Wife's Documents.

Can two users access the same bootcamp (win os) instance?

We are two users who are using our imac and we both have own user names in mac os. I created a bootcamp partition with windows xp on it. Can both users access the same partition and create their own user spaces within xp?
Will that work also if we use Parallel or virtual box? (access the same user data as in boot camp?)
I would like to have the option for each user to access their windows data either through bootcamp or through the virtual tool.
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gss2 wrote:
What do you mean Virtual box it will not run on its own partition? I have a virtual box running on my desktop and it runs just fine ...own partition?? I don't understand.
Running on its own partition means that the installed OS has its own formatted portion (partition) of the hard drive. A virtual machine does not have its own partition. It creates a virtual partition (a file on the computer) that simulates a file system (partition). So Virtual Box, or any other virtualization software, does not run Windows, or any other OS in its own partition.

How can multiple Mac users have the same iTunes?

I have a MacBook, and my wife and I have separate accounts on it. It's easier that way for separate Facebook accounts, email, etc. However, it's complicated when it comes to iTunes and applications. We both want to use the same iTunes library. We have iTunes Match, but I'd rather not re-download my entire library when it's already on my computer just so we both have access to it. I tried following the directions at this article, but it didn't work. So, how can both my wife and I, from different accounts on the same Mac (and using the same Apple ID) access the same iTunes library and have any changes reflected on both accounts?

Obviously, if you just need to copy those iTunes folders, you don't need the ability to write; just the ability to read, which you already have.
Besides, the /Users/Shared folder is indeed an excellent location for a shared iTunes library; I hadn't yet considered that. Ignore all the above instructions. First, make sure your two iTunes libraries are in sync. Use an external hard drive (or mess with permissions) to do what copying you need to. Then go into iTunes and iTunes>Preferences...>Advanced and change the iTunes Media folder location to /Users/Shared. All of your iTunes content should be copied (or moved) into /Users/Shared.
After that, do the same thing in the other account, and both your iTunes libraries will now be pointed to the same location.

Prevent multiple users accessing the same form

hi,
i am working in forms
i have a requirement like this
if more than one user are using the same form and try to access the same record then the second user should not be able to do transaction
he should be popped up with a msg saying that other user is working on it
can any one suggest how to do this in my form
thanks in advance
selvaraj s

That is pretty much exactly the way Forms works automatically.
Two users can use the same form, and can even display the same data record. One of the users can make changes to the record -- Forms locks the row upon the FIRST keystroke in the first field the user begins to change.
Once the row is locked, the second user is free to look at the record, and won't even know if another user has begun making changes. However, if second user tries to change even one field in the record, Forms pops up the message, "Could not reserve record (2 tries). Keep trying? Yes / No"
There are also protections so if the first user actually changes the row and commits, then the second user tries to make a change. Forms will automatically detect whether changes were made, and if so, will undo the change and issue the message, "FRM-40654: Record has been updated by another user. Re-query to see change."
The above automatic processing works very nicely. If it will not work for you, then what is it you need?

Multiple users accessing the same server.

Ok here is my issue, about 2 months ago I started having issues with Filesharing on my 2012 Mac Mini running Lion server (current update). We have 3 users that VPN into our conpany network and usually access the same folder, 2 months ago they started conflicting with each other. When one VPNs into the network and connects to the server they are fine, if the second one connects to the network they are fine but if the second one tries to access the fileshare they knock the second one off the server. The first one's connection eventually hangs and they have to completely disconnect from the VPN. I am wondering if this was caused by a patch or if there is something else going on. I have tried to reboot the server and checked the logs for anything but I am not seeing what may be causing this. I have restarted the Filesharing in the Server app and still get the same problem, the users are connecting via local credentials to the server. I don't think it is a password issue since either user can log in and access as long as another user doesn't so I am not sure what the issue could be.
any help appriciated,
josh

By 'standard record locking system' do you mean there is nothing I need to do programatically? No block level properties to change?
So you are saying this is just the way it always works. So as soon as one of our call center agents opens a record all I have to do is create a pending update to any field?
But won't another user be able to open the form and just query that record not knowing another user has it open?

What happens when multiple users access the same servlet?

Do the users share all the same resources? Or is a new process generated for each user? I have a servlet that builds a string to return to the user and I only have myself to test, so I can't really see what happens when many users access the servlet. Is there a possibility that the string will get screwed up, like when dealing with multiple threads, or do all the users get their own resources and I don't have to worry about that?

huh? if you can point a test servlet at it, you can point a browser at it (even if the servlet does not serve html it will run)
try pasting the servlet URL into a web browser
refreshing multiple browsers repeatedly could provide a manual test

Multiple User Accessing the same record issue

I am planning to design an app where we have the following use case requirement.
If a user who is logged into the system is accessing a record(plan in this case) anyone else who is logged into the system at the same time should be locked out of that same plan but should still be able to access other plans in the system. A plan has many things associated with it so the 2nd user should be locked out of everything associated to the plan being accessed by the first user.
What is the best way to implement this at the application or the database level?
Here are some options we have been bouncing around.
1. When the first user logs in and accesses the first plan we lock the plan at the app level using a singleton class which has one and only one instance on the app server. The plan_id can be put as an entry into a hashtable which can be in the session and is created if one does not exist. When the 2nd user tries to access the same plan, since the plan_id is still in the hashtable he would be locked out. However we somehow need to timeout the first user after 30 mts of inactivity or so so that others can access the plan and are not locked out for ever if the first user walks away from his PC or does not close his browser, thus keeping his session alive indefinitely.
2. In the database in the plan table we add a column for 'locked'. When the first entry is created in the plan table locked column is marked as 'yes' or 1 and when the user closes the browser we use some javascript to trigger an event which changes that 'yes' or 1 to 'no' or 0 thus unlocking the plan. However the big issue we see in this concept is that we will have to put a javascript onUnload method in all jsp pages in the app because the user could be anywhere in the app after starting his plan access after login.
Conceptually the 2 options are the same but one is done at the app whereas the other is at the database level.
Is there a better way to handle this scenario using transactions or some other technological option.
Thanks

Another solution involving no modification of the database structure:
As soon as a user want to access a plan, try to UPDATE the plan record... if it fails, the record was locked
by another user before. When the user has finished with the plan, you can COMMIT or ROLLBACK the changes, which will free the lock for other users.
An advantage of this solution is that if program crashes unexpectedly, there will automatically be a ROLLBACK.
Of course, you need a transaction for this... and perhaps more if you want to separate the 'locking transaction' (virtual update just for restricting access) from the 'operating transaction' (in which you will
do the DB stuff: inserts, updates, deletes, etc.)
Hope this helped,
Regards.

Report run very slow because some user accessing the same report

Dear All,
I group my table into 3 tablespace And some reports, accessing different tablespace (more than 1 table space). and these report will always be run by 5 user in the same time. and make it run very slow. Is it going to make the report very slow ? Please advice
Thanks in advance
Widhi

Hi,
i hope that may not be the actual problem..
if ur report processing includes relatively high
amount of calculations on tables..then the report
processing can be very slow...
In that case try to create a table to store ur calculations
temporarily and try to use that table in the report..

Can CF and ASP Access the Same Database?

Hello. I'm about to go into beta with a ColdFusion 8 site I
just wrote, and I've just realized there could be a problem I
haven't anticipated. There's another site, written in ASP, which
will accessing the same data at the same time. The data are in
FoxPro for DOS, which (if I have the terminology right) is a 'file
server' database. Both my site and the ASP site will be accessing
it through ODBC. I will be accessing it on a read only basis, and I
believe the ASP site accesses it read only as well. However, other
employees in the company are constantly accessing it read/write.
The ASP site has been already up and running for some time,
and the office manager (it's a small company) finds that he is able
to avoid conflicts by first stopping the ASP server each morning,
then starting FoxPro, then re-starting the ASP server. (I do not
mean the IIS server, but a little EXE written by the ASP
programmer, which puts up its own little window with 'start' and
'stop' buttons on it.)
However, I find that on my own PC, using the free Developer
version of ColdFusion and accessing my site as localhost, if a DBF
(database file) is opened in FoxPro (even if no one is currently
writing to it), then my CF web site cannot access it, and vice
versa. That is, if I start FoxPro first and open the DBF of
interest, my web site can't access that DBF. And conversely, if I
access it first via my web site, then FoxPro can't access it. In
other words, the solution which works for the office manager and
his ASP site does not work for me with CF on my local PC.
Will matters be different in their system, where I will be
installing my site tomorrow, along with the Standard version of CF
8? If it matters, the FoxPro data and the Web server will be
different boxes linked by a network. The operating system is
Windows 2003 if I recall correctly.
Should I be saying 'Oops!' right about now?
I can probably come up with a workaround by having FoxPro
write a record to an alternate DBF every time the DBF of interest
to my site is updated, but will I have to do this?
Thanks for your help.

paross1 wrote:
> there probably isn't
> much that can be done with a database that probably
isn't designed for multiple
> simultaneous transactions.
>
> Phil
>
Not much that can be done to make the database robust and
handle
simultaneous transactions. But you could wrap all your CFML
that
accesses this resource in named <cflock ...> tags so
that they are
single threaded, thus restricting CF to one access at at
time. Then
wrap all of this up in a <cftry><cfcatch...>
blocks to gracefully handle
when the database is locked up by some other user/process.
You will still have many times when the CF application will
not be able
to access the resource do to locking issues, but it will
handle this
gracefully and not just FAIL.
Of course this will have serious performance, throughput and
scalability
consequences. But I suspect if you are using something like
FoxPro you
are not building an application expected to handle heavy
load.

Please help! Multiple users accessing the same data sets

Hi all,
Can anyone provide a bit of insight in to a question I have?
We have two users that require to see the same set of data in the BPC Excel interface at the same time. The information is employees and date.
User 1 would like to see All Employee SignedData for 1 month, and User 2 would like to see just a slice of the Employees for 1 month.
If both of the Users are logged in at the same time, what will happen in terms of SAP 'locking' the data set? I am aware of Data Access Profiles to restrict their access to particular Master Data but there will be the requirement for users to see (maybe just in read-only), data that is shared between both Users.
Will it throw up an error or can I make it so that users have 'read only' access?
Any advice would be very much appreciated!
Nick

Hi Nick,
No issue with that at all.
They can even both have write access. If they try to update the exact same record at the same time BPC will just keep writing Delta records.
User A enters 10
User B enters 20
User A refreshes and will get 20
User B refreshes and also gets 20

Using iCal on two separate computers to access the same calendar

I would like to be able to synch the same calendar on both my laptop and my work computer. So far, I haven't been able to do this. I've tried subscribing and making sure they update, and have my calendars posted on my .mac site. How do I get both computers to have access to the same calendar and also make it so changes I make from either home or work can be seen in both places?

Well, did you put your .Mac user name and password in the System Preferences in both computers? And you have to enable calendar sync in the .Mac preference.

Can two iCal users edit the same published/shared calendar

Can two iCal users (obviously different mobileMe accounts) edit the same published/shared calendar? I want to have a calendar running which we can both edit remotely but for it to be synced so we both know what each other is doing. Maybe I can share it on my iDisk somehow? I have searched but could not find an answer so I am sorry if this has been covered already !

There is now way to do this using standard MobileMe and iCal. What you could is both share your calendars so that both of you can read each other's calendar.
If you want both to have read-write access to a calendar you will need to use third party software or set up a Google calendar where both of you have read-write access to the calendar.

Two Windows users accessing the same Datebook (Palm Desktop)

I have a Vista machine that has Palm Desktop 6.2 installed. My wife sometimes needs to access the calendar to add dates, etc. I set up the Vista machine for remote desktop and gave her an account so that she doesn't kick me out of my session. When she launches Palm Desktop, she can only create a new user/profile, not access the one that's already there. How can I accomplish this? Thanks!
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Palm desktop doesn't support the fast user switching thus the problems you are running into. I think the closest you are going to get to in order to share this data is a program called SyncUs.
They have a current version that is in beta that is compatible with Palm Desktop 6.2 if that is something you want to give a try.
http://www.syncus.co.uk/
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Multiple users accessing the same data in a global temp table

I have a global temp table (GTT) defined with 'on commit preserve rows'. This table is accessed via a web page using ASP.NET. The application was designed so that every one that accessed the web page could only see their data in the GTT.
We have just realized that the GTT doesn't appear to be empty as new web users use the application. I believe it has something to do with how ASP is connecting to the database. I only see one entry in the V$SESSION view even when multiple users are using the web page. I believe this single V$SESSION entry is causing only one GTT to be available at a time. Each user is inserting into / selecting out of the same GTT and their results are wrong.
I'm the back end Oracle developer at this place and I'm having difficulty translating this issue to the front end ASP team. When this web page is accessed, I need it to start a new session, not reuse an existing session. I want to keep the same connection, but just start a new session... Now I'm losing it.. Like I said, I'm the back end guy and all this web/connection/pooling front end stuff is magic to me.
The GTT isn't going to work unless we get new sessions. How do we do this?
Thanks!

DGS wrote:
I have a global temp table (GTT) defined with 'on commit preserve rows'. This table is accessed via a web page using ASP.NET. The application was designed so that every one that accessed the web page could only see their data in the GTT.
We have just realized that the GTT doesn't appear to be empty as new web users use the application. I believe it has something to do with how ASP is connecting to the database. I only see one entry in the V$SESSION view even when multiple users are using the web page. I believe this single V$SESSION entry is causing only one GTT to be available at a time. Each user is inserting into / selecting out of the same GTT and their results are wrong.
I'm the back end Oracle developer at this place and I'm having difficulty translating this issue to the front end ASP team. When this web page is accessed, I need it to start a new session, not reuse an existing session. I want to keep the same connection, but just start a new session... Now I'm losing it.. Like I said, I'm the back end guy and all this web/connection/pooling front end stuff is magic to me.
The GTT isn't going to work unless we get new sessions. How do we do this?
Thanks!You may want to try changing your GTT to 'ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS' and have the .Net app use a transaction object.
We had a similar problem and I found help in the following thread:
Re: Global temp table problem w/ODP?
All the best.

Can several computers/users access the same profile?

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