Multi-User log in

I am surprised of the delay when logging out before another person can log in. Any suggestions how to speed this up?

You system info states 10.0.x but if you are using an iMac G4 (this discussion area) you are least using OS 10.1.x.
First I would suggest upgrading to at least OS 10.2. It is much more stable, offers many more features, and is more efficient.
If you upgrade to OS 10.3, you can use fast user switching which allows you to switch between users more quickly and without logging out anyone.

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Multiple users logged into one server, each users printer has a different name, application needs ONE name to print to.

Multiple users logged into one server, each users printer has a different name, application needs ONE name to print to.
I'm NOT in any way a Terminal Services expert and I need help trying to get an application program working in a multi-user environment.
The issue is that the printer changes for every user that is logged in. The application needs to print NOT to the default printer, but to a "special" printer which is selected in the application... let's call it a label printer to simplify the explanation.
You have your default regular printer, easy for the application to find that one, and then you have a special printer that labels get printed onto. The application needs to know what printer is the label printer. So we allow the user to select that in the
application and the selection is stored in a config file in
C:\ProgramData\mfgr\prog\setting files
I don't have access to the application so I can't change how this works.
In the "regular" world, selecting the label printer driver to use should be per machine, NOT per user. When a new user logs into a machine, the physical printer doesn't go "poof" and a new printer suddenly appear. Same printer for all
users.
Yet in terminal services, the physical machine is "merged" with the virtual machine on the server. And there can be many users logged in at the same time. So each users real machine (and real printer) is injected into the "fake" terminal
services machine. The name of the printers is made unique for each user. So the printers DO go "poof" and change names depending on the user logged into terminal services.
So user "A" logs in and sets up the application to print to "LabelPrinterForUserA" (or whatever the name of the printer happens to be), that setting is stored in the ProgramData subfolder, and all is well. Later, user "B" logs
in, and when they print, the application tries to print to "LabelPrinterForUserA" which doesn't exist for user B or is only accessible by user A. If user B re-configures, that breaks it for user A.
SOLUTION 1: The way that /should/ work (in my mind) is that you define one "generic" printer in Terminal Services... call it "Virtual Label printer" and when the user wants to print to it, the print job gets re-directed back to whatever
physical printer is actually connected to their local workstation. There is a map of virtual printer to actual printer depending on the current user. The application is told once to print to "Virtual Label Printer" for all users.
SOLUTION 2: Or... there should be some way to make the ProgramData sub folders separate per user. E.g. when user "A" tries to access:
C:\ProgramData\mfgr\prog\setting files
they actually get
C:\UserData\UserA\AppData\mfgr\prog\setting files
and user "B" gets
C:\UserData\UserB\AppData\mfgr\prog\setting files
So the question I have is: Does either of those solutions exist hidden somewhere in the setup of terminal server? Or is there another way around this issue that I don't know?

I don't really have a "for sure" answer to this, but because people here can't seem to deal with a question that hasn't been answered I'll provide the best answer I did receive from ServerFault.com user Nathan:
I can feel your pain with using old software on terminal servers ...the solution I've come up with definitely won't scale as it requires some manual configuration, but I've gotten this method to work with our label printers (which require to be
printed to an LPT port...yep, that old).
Share your USB-connected printers to the network on each machine. Then, have the user log in on aunique session for each of them
(a TS account cannot be shared among computers for this to work) and install a network printer pointing to the USB one they shared. Try to use a DNS name to account for possible DHCP movements.
After, it should work. Each user can do this since display names can be identical as long as the ports are different (which they are).
This was clarified by the following series of comments:
I think you are on to something here, and I originally advised the admin to do this. The problem he ran into is that it setup the printer names in the TS as "printer on usersworkstation"
and he could not rename it except to change the "printer" to whatever. E.g. the "on userworkstation" remained. I believe there is another way of installing the printer which avoids this, but I can't find it. Ages ago, one used to do NET
USE LPT2 \\computer\printer password /USER:domain\user /PERSISTENT:YES and then tell the driver to print to LPT2 –  James
Newton Mar
17 at 16:21
@JamesNewton That's actually the exact method we used. The way around the "network printer" part is to install it as local printer and map it to a TCP/IP port that way. –  Nathan
C Mar
17 at 16:28
You mean in the case where the printers are TCP/IP connected and not local USB / LPT to the users workstation? That makes sense. Wonder if this will work for USB connected printers... –  James
NewtonMar
17 at 16:35
@JamesNewton You'd share the local printer on the client's PC then on the server connect via TCP/IP to it. You'd need static addresses or use DNS names if DHCP, though. –  Nathan
C Mar
17 at 16:51
Ah. Yes. I see. Looks like the LPT thing should work even with a USB connected printer:superuser.com/questions/182655/… –  James
Newton Mar
17 at 17:09

Multiple Users/Logging In Problem

Using Multiple Users I added a second user to our iMac DV400 (blueberry, slot loading) running OS9.2.1. The problem: now we can only log on to the second user's desktop and can't access the primary user's desktop. Since the second user is set up with limited user privileges, we can't access the system programs; most importantly, the Multiple Users program so that we can revert this problem by deleting the second user from the system. Can anyone offer some help?
Thanks

Welcome to Apple Discussions pd,
Start from your Mac OS installer CD (insert it and hold the c key, release the key when you see the "Welome To Macintosh" message)
Open your hard drive and locate the System folder. Open that and locate the Preferences folder. From that folder, delete the three preference files and one folder with "Multi User" in their names.
Restart as normal and empty the trash. You will have to re-create the user accounts.

Multi user application control data access

Dear all,
i am using Oracle Developer Suite 10g and database 10g, windows xp plate form.
i want to develop multi user application regarding education.
i have two questions.
1. i take a start from creating an HR database which have 30 tables.
this database has 10 users.
the users will log on from their own schema.
how they will access the HR schema?
should i create a public synonym for each table in the HR Schema?
or should i create a view for each table in each user schema?
or should i grant select,insert,update etc to each user on HR schema?
2. i want to control the data access for each user.
i.e. every student could access his own academic record. each teacher access his own related record, the manager the owner and so on.
how to accompolish this task? oracle roles are not sufficient for this purpose.
Your help is highly appriciated.

How about you start with the basic stuff, like the 2 days developers guide:
http://www.oracle.com/pls/db112/to_toc?pathname=appdev.112/e10766/toc.htm
and make it to the advanced developers guide:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/appdev.112/e25518/toc.htm
and work your way through the concepts manual:
http://www.oracle.com/pls/db112/to_toc?pathname=server.112/e25789/toc.htm
and everything else which sounds interesting to you in here:
http://www.oracle.com/pls/db112/portal.portal_db?selected=5&frame=
As for your first question this should be covered here:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/network.112/e16543/authorization.htm#BABHFJFJ
i want to control the data access for each user.This is also documented:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/network.112/e16543/vpd.htm#CIHBAJGI
cheers

Problem with mode switching/Volume Panel in multi-user environment?

As above - using Windows 7 64-bit with an X-Fi Titanium Fatalty card.
All works well as long as I'm the only person logged in, but if my wife logs into the computer (using Windows 7's built-in multi-user mode...'fast user switching', which is enabled by default), and then I log back in...well, the volume panel app doesn't seem to work. In fact, even using the control panel app, I can't regain control of the soundcard enough to switch modes.
Logging her off doesn't resolve the issue, so it seems like something about her logging on (another user logging in, two volpanlu.exe running, something) is causing my instance to go haywire. [FWIW, I'm a 'standard' user on the PC, and her login is a 'limited' user]
Note that 'killing' the task volpanlu.exe in task managed, then going to the Windows services control panel and stopping and re-starting the 'Windows Audio' service, and finally re-launching volpanlu.exe from the start menu DOES always work to resolve the problem (regardless of if she's logged in or not...this always fixes it).
Still, that's a kinda annoyingly large set of steps to always have to go through whenever I want to change audio mode after she's logged in.
Is there any way to fix this? Any setting I could be missing to optimize the X-Fi control panel for multi-user environments? Any of the X-Fi mod dri've packs handle fast user switching better? Any other ideas?

GA little bit more tinkering around this, and I have some more information:
- Once I "seize control" (the kill of volpanlu, restart 'Windows Audio' service, re-launch volpanlu), if my wife logs back in, now *she* can't change the audio mode

Video display errors with multi-user

Macbook Pro or Mavericks bug
10.9.3, MacBook Pro (Late 2010), MacBookPro6,2
When using the multi-user switching, the background image is distorted.
To recreate:
Establish user "B" with a background image on screen. I have three Spaces with three different images. All users logged out.
Login as user "A"
Login to user "B" using the Menubar to select the other user without logging out of user "A"
Note bar on right-hand side of screen and distorted colors.
User A has one of the Apple background photographs
User B has personal photographs from 8 MP camera
If user B is logged in from the Login Window then all is OK. Display issue only shows up when logging in from other user via fast user switching (or whatever that is called). If user B logs out and logs in again from the Login Window all is OK.

Can you post screenshots of the distortion, someone may recognize it.
What you describe sounds like one user as something running that doesn't work well with FUS (I think it's still called 'fast user switching' ).
You can disable all login items by holding alt as you click the login button. See if that has any effect. If it does you know you need to look at the users login items (in System Preferences > Users & groups). In not sure if the 'alt trick' works inside the fast user switching menu, so you may want to verify the flaw exists when going to the login window, then reboot & try the 'alt trick' with the same steps.
The other thing to try is using a background image that has been resaved via Preview's export (or another app). It's possible the file itself is a reason for the issue, do standard backgrounds do the same?

SMF and multi-user service not running

Hi,
I have an issue with several services not starting ...
As you can see, the multi-user services is "offline*" And it remains like this...
I've recently patched the system hoping it would resolve this issue, but no luck. Restarting the server does not help.
# svcs | grep multi-user
offline 14:14:21 svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default
offline* 14:14:53 svc:/milestone/multi-user:default
# svcs -xv
svc:/milestone/multi-user:default (multi-user milestone)
State: offline since Wed Dec 05 14:14:53 2007
Reason: Start method is running.
See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-C4
See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1M init
See: /var/svc/log/milestone-multi-user:default.log
Impact: 6 dependent services are not running:
svc:/system/webconsole:console
svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default
svc:/system/basicreg:default
svc:/system/zones:default
svc:/application/graphical-login/cde-login:default
svc:/application/cde-printinfo:default
I've tried to enable the services above manually, but had no luck.
Thanks.

Darren_Dunham wrote:
>
# svcs | grep multi-user
offline 14:14:21 svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default
offline* 14:14:53 svc:/milestone/multi-user:default
# svcs -xv
svc:/milestone/multi-user:default (multi-user milestone)
State: offline since Wed Dec 05 14:14:53 2007
Reason: Start method is running.The start method of milestone/multi-user is responsible for (among other things), running all the /etc/rc2.d scripts. If you've placed a startup script in there and it's hanging, you'll see this behavior. From memory, I think there's a 30 minute timeout before it gives up and continues.
During the problem period, you probably want to do a 'ps -ef | grep rc' and look for any rc scripts running. That will probably point to a startup script hanging.
DarrenThanks Darren,
That was the problem. A hung script in rc2.d/
What is odd, is that this script is the same on many of our machines and no problems have been found until now. Thanks for your help. Killing that processes made everything start properly.

No Multi-User Calendar in WebAccess

We are using GW 2012 and looking at the possibility of eliminating the client in favor of WebAccess for all users.
One issue that I've run into is that we cannot view multiple calendars via the multi-user function while in WebAccess. It works perfectly fine in the client.
When I log into my mailbox and click the calendar button, my only option under the "Calendars" box is "Calendar" which is my own. No others display. I can proxy, via WebAccess, into the other calendar with no issues.
I've looked through the threads here, and performed a few internet searches with no results. From the documentation it does appear that Multi-User is available, or supposed to be, when in WebAccess.
Our GW system (MTA, GWIA, WebAccess) is running on SLES10/OES2 with multiple post offices running on SLES10 or 11.
Thanks for any pointers you may have!
Michael

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Multi-user set-up

Naive newbie question:
What is the usual method for making tables available to multiple users?
If I log in as user a and create a table, then try to access it as user b, I can access tables in a's schema as a.table.
How do I make the table available to all users so they don't have to keep qualifying it with the schema name? Or is there some better approach to setting up a multi-user d/b?
Which manual best covers these issues?
Thanks,
-Andy-

As user b, enter:
CREATE SYNONYM table FOR a.table ;
Or, if user a wants ALL users to access the table, then as user a, enter:
CREATE PUBLIC SYNONYM table FOR a.table ;
(Note that user a will need the CREATE PUBLIC SYNONYM privelege).

UPK11 - multi-user environment - manage author permissions - help

We are configuring our UPK 11 multi-user environment.
As we have it set, the "everyone" group has modify access to all folders.
I would like to have a few admins have modify access to the system folder and everyone else be read only.
Here's my dilemma -
My admin profile is also a part of the everyone group - so if I set the permissions on the everyone group to read only, that effects the admin login as well.
The documentation says that if I set up an author with explicit folder permissions, that they are not included in the everyone group, but everytime I try, they are added (irrevocably) to the everyone group before I can even assign an explicit permission.
I tried to set the everyone group to read only and nearly hobbled my admin account.
Can someone who has managed authors in a UPK 11 multii-user environment send out some tips?
I'm not understanding the documentation well enough to make headway.
[email protected]

Hi Paul,
I recently performed an implementation of UPK 11 at a client and had to show one of their employees how to administer the security surrounding profiles and authors.
The group "Everyone" is default, and each person will belong to that group. It seems that when a person is assigned to another group/with author-specific permissions, it will override that which is set to the "Everyone" group.
What I normally suggest (and implement) is that you modularise your security (separate the authors into their respective departments), and then create those departments as groups, and then assign permissions as required. Lets use an example - it assumes you are logged in as an admin user:
I create 3 folders (where 4 and 5 are defaults):
1. HR
2. FIN
3. CS
4. Administrators
5. Everyone
Each author is defaulted to number 5, and all administrators should be included in group 4.
Now the goal is to prevent HR and FIN from modifying CS, and vice-versa for the other two groups.
You will see in your library that the root is defined as "/". Firstly, ensure that the Administrators group has Modify access to this folder (Administration --> Manage Groups --> Permissions). I think you need to click on edit, then click on the "Add" button (under permissions), and choose the root folder "/" - ensure it has modify - by default this value should already exist. This now ensures that the security is filtered down to all sub-ordinate folders that exist under the root folder - you do not need to manually assign "modify" permissions to each folder for the Administrator group, as you have already done so at root level.
You will also notice that there is a "Members/Users" tab (can't remember off the top of my head which), and this allows you to select the profiles/authors that have Administrator group priviledges - ensure the correct users are selected.
I normally leave the "Everyone" group as it is - do this for now, ensure everyone is included in it, and only modify after you have implemented and tested your security structure if needs be - normally the other group permissions override the "Everyone" group permissions.
Next step is to assign department specific permissions to the 3 folders we created. Navigate to Administration --> Manage Groups, and ensure that you begin by editing the first department group (HR) - create the group if not already done, then edit (little pencil logo). You would like all HR users to have full modify access to their folder only, but they must not be able to mess around with the other two departments or the "System", "Getting started with UPK" and "/" folders. Under permissions, click on the Add button, and ensure that the folder "HR" has modify priviledge. Add the remaining 4 folders (CS, FIN, System, Getting started with UPK), and assign either Read or Read/View permission - this will ensure all other folders cannot be modified by HR users. Add the relevant HR users to the group under the "Members/Users" tab.
Apply the same for FIN and CS respectively.
Now you could get to a point where you may need cross-departmental access for a few users (FIN may need to access some HR content). I recommed that you do this on the user level, and not the group level, as you will limit who can access other departments. Navigate to Administration --> Manage Authors. Click on the specific user that will require access to another department. Edit his profile and under the permissions tab, ensure that he has required access to the other department folder (or sub-folders only) by adding and assigning the priveledge. This should ovveride the group security set for that specific department - but only for this user!
Test by attempting to create content in an un-authorised folder (when logged in as a normal user). Test admin account by creating content in each folder. If it works - you will no longer need to modify "Everyone", as your permissions are defined under the other groups. I hope this all makes sense?
Thats it in a nutshell really.
I hope that this helps, and feel free to get back to me if you are still unsure?
Regards,
Greig

Unpredictable behaviour of svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default

I have a Solaris 10 U4 running on SPARC(PrimePower H/W).
The machine is not going to run-level 3 (i.e the service svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default ) is in maintenance mode inspite of all the required dependency for the specified services are met.
This is the output of svcs -l /milestone/multi-user-server command.
root@jupiter>svcs -l /milestone/multi-user-server
fmri svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default
name multi-user plus exports milestone
enabled true
state maintenance
next_state none
state_time December 19, 2008 3:40:11 PM CET
logfile /var/svc/log/milestone-multi-user-server:default.log
restarter svc:/system/svc/restarter:default
dependency optional_all/none svc:/system/cluster/cl-svc-enable:default (online)
dependency require_all/none svc:/milestone/multi-user (online)
dependency optional_all/none svc:/application/management/dmi (disabled)
dependency optional_all/none svc:/application/management/snmpdx (disabled)
dependency optional_all/none svc:/network/rpc/bootparams (disabled)
dependency optional_all/none svc:/network/samba (disabled)
dependency optional_all/none svc:/network/nfs/server (disabled)
dependency optional_all/none svc:/network/winbind (disabled)
dependency optional_all/none svc:/network/wins (disabled)
dependency optional_all/none svc:/network/rarp (disabled)
dependency optional_all/none svc:/network/dhcp-server (disable)
Regrads,
Rahul.

rahulsingh wrote:
I have a Solaris 10 U4 running on SPARC(PrimePower H/W).
The machine is not going to run-level 3 (i.e the service svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default ) is in maintenance mode inspite of all the required dependency for the specified services are met.Dependencies aren't sufficient for online. They're sufficent to begin bringing it online.
This is the output of svcs -l /milestone/multi-user-server command.
root@jupiter>svcs -l /milestone/multi-user-server
fmri svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default
name multi-user plus exports milestone
enabled true
state maintenanceThis milestone isn't "offline", it's in "maintenance". So it tried to come online (after the dependencies were met), but failed for some reason. You should check the log file for the service.
/var/svc/log/milestone-multi-user-server:default.log
Darren

Error d124 Multi user calendar

Hello,
we moved all of our users from one PO to another, both GW2012SP2. When the users now open their multi user calendar they get the error "d124".
When i open the multi-user list in a users mailbox there are entries from the old po an the new po. I tried to remove the old entries by click the Name, click Remove User, click OK to save. When i re-open the list, the removed users dont appear. Now i closed the Client, start it again and all of the removed users are shown up again in the multi-user list...
Does anyone have an idea how to remove the user in the multi-user list permamently? Or have any GW Check options to solve this?
kind regards
Benjamin

In article <[email protected]>, Bmulfinger wrote:
> we moved all of our users from one PO to another, both GW2012SP2. When
> the users now open their multi user calendar they get the error "d124".
Moving in every sense of the term always leaves some loose ends like
this. This is why as much as possible we like to move POs and not the
users if we can avoid it. Basically some of the connectsions betweek
users broke because a bunch of them are still looking at the old PO, so
we need to work through those connections and fix them.
>
> When i open the multi-user list in a users mailbox there are entries
> from the old po an the new po.
In looking this up I found I had a user in my list that was no longer in
the system and I had the same behaviour in trying to deal with it. I
realized that this was only the users I have proxied into, so I went into
my proxy list, removed the offending user, and after a restart the
problem went away. So how many of these do you need to deal with?
Before we look at the specialized GWchecks, make sure you are running a
regular set of them and checking the resulting outputs for any errors
that might point you to parts of the cleanup.
http://www.konecnyad.ca/andyk/gwlogs.htm
Running through the TopDown rebuild (TID 3347260 at
https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3347260) and selecting the
Rebuild Indexes after doing the other parts at those levels may help.
Afterwards an Analyze/Fix of Structure & Index would be useful, checking
the results to see if it reports problems. If there are such problems,
rerun again to see that they are gone.
Andy of
KonecnyConsulting.ca in Toronto
Knowledge Partner
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Smartview: Audit of Changes & Multi user access

Can anyone tell me how can we check smartview logs (from a Word doc) for an HFM application?
Is it possible to have multi user access to a Word document via SmartView?

Having multiuser access requires that everyone share the Domain file where iWeb keeps its data and that each person only use the latest version of it. Of course each user must also have a Mac and iWeb installed as well. Personally I would stick with blogspot.

Change single user to multi user

Hi,
I put the database ABC in single user mode through SSMS, now when I am changing back it to multi user, I get below error
Msg 1205, Level 13, State 68, Line 1
Transaction (Process ID 127) was deadlocked on lock resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Rerun the transaction.
Msg 5069, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
ALTER DATABASE statement failed.
127 is my own session.
Please help me

Hi,
I restarted the database and was able to get rid of deadlock , but I am still confused how was the deadlock when no other session was in the database, there were other connections to master database.
Also let me know how can I check and remove the deadlock?
REgards
Probably taking it Offline would have worked i assume.Deadlock is not possible if only one transaction is there multiple transaction are required/involved .As suggested by article provided by me there must be some other request coming from application or
from other users who have logged in .Did you searched ? tried using DMV to find out ?
If you say' yes I did but did not find anything ', I would not believe you.regarding how to resolve deadlock please search on net you will get many good articles.without seeing deadlock graph one cannot comment.
Also its brave decision to take database single user ,before we do we make sure app is not accessing DB,no other job is running which is accessing DB. Any background process is using DB should be either killed or rolled back then we proceed with keeping
DB in single user mode.
Please mark this reply as the answer or vote as helpful, as appropriate, to make it useful for other readers

Is the price for multi user 89.99 per year? How is it installed by each user?

Is the price for multi user 89.99 per year? How is it installed by each user?

Hi cclark,
An Adobe PDF Pack subscription is tied to an Adobe ID, so it's a single-user subscription. There's nothing to install; you access the subscription by logging in via a web browser to https://cloud.acrobat.com using your Adobe ID and a password.
I hope that answers your questions.
Best,
Sara

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