Sharing apps among users

can we share applications on a mac between users

Most applications are already shared between users. They're located in the common system applications directory.

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Use Sparse Bundle Disk Image for sharing library among users?

Apple's knowledge base article HT1198 (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1198) on sharing iphoto libraries among multiple users on the same Macintosh describes using a sparse disk image in the /users/Shared/ directory. For a Mac that uses a Time Capsule for Time Machine backups won't this require the entire iPhoto library to be backed up anytime a picture is added or modified?
Would using a sparse bundle disk image instead work better?
Also, HT1198 doesn't say anything about "Partitions" parameter setting in Disk Utility when creating a blank sparse image or sparse bundle disk image. Does it matter what setting is selected if the image is being kept on the Mac internal disk drive?
Is there any difference between iPhoto '08 or iPhoto '09 when attempting sharing the iPhoto library among users?

I believe it may require the entire bundle to be backed up. You'd best ask that question in the Time Machine forum. They would know more about the ins and outs of TM there.
If you can afford an external FW hard drive that would be the best option by far. No worry about filling up the sparse bundle, and you could use the external HD as a work platform to help keep a minimum of 20 GB of free space on your boot drive for optimal performance of system and applications.

Sharing pics among Users on same computer

I want to share the pictures on our MacBook between my wife and me. Each of us has a User account on this machine. I have stored the pictures in the Shared Folder, and would like to reference the pictures from each of our User accounts using iPhoto. However, IPhoto was set to the management default, so it duplicated all the pictures, and they now exist both in Shared and in My Pictures.
I need advice: am I trying too hard to be efficient by having the pictures in only one place? Should we go ahead and duplicate everything - it seems wasteful, and has the potential for confusion. What do you think?
Thanks, S

Two Problems and two solutions:
I have stored the pictures in the Shared Folder... iPhoto was set to the management default, so it duplicated all the pictures,
Chuck away the ones in the Shared Folder - put them in the trash. Just don't empty it yet, until you're sure that the Library does indeed contain all the Photos.
would like to reference the pictures from each of our User accounts using iPhoto
For iPhoto 09 (version 8.0.2) and later:
What you mean by 'share'.
If you want the other user to be able to see the pics, but not add to, change or alter your library, then enable Sharing in your iPhoto (Preferences -> Sharing), leave iPhoto running and use Fast User Switching to open the other account. In that account, enable 'Look For Shared Libraries'. Your Library will appear in the other source pane.
Any user can drag a pic from the Shared Library to their own in the iPhoto Window.
Remember iPhoto must be running in both accounts for this to work.
If you want the other user to have the same access to the library as you: to be able to add, edit, organise, keyword etc.
Quit iPhoto in both accounts. Move the Library to the Users / Shared Folder
(You can also use an external HD set to ignore permissions, a Disk Image or even partition your Hard Disk.)
In each account in turn: Double click on the Library to open it. (You may be asked to repair the Library Permissions.) From that point on, this will be the default library location. Both accounts will have full access to the library, in fact, both accounts will 'own' it.
However, there is a catch with this system and it is a significant one. iPhoto is not a multi-user app., it does not have the code to negotiate two users simultaneously writing to the database, and trying will cause db corruption. So only one user at a time, and back up, back up back up.
Regards
TD

Shared applications among user profiles?

My wife and I have separate user profiles for our home computer. When I upload photos she can not access them from iPhoto unless she is logged in to my profile. The same is true for me if she uploads photos.
Is there a way for us to have a universal or shared applications (at this time, specifically iPhoto) across multiple profiles?

What you mean by 'share'.
If you want the other user to be able to see the pics, but not add to, change or alter your library, then enable Sharing in your iPhoto (Preferences -> Sharing), leave iPhoto running and use Fast User Switching to open the other account. In that account, enable 'Look For Shared Libraries'. Your Library will appear in the other source pane.
Any user can drag a pic from the Shared Library to their own in the iPhoto Window.
Remember iPhoto must be running in both accounts for this to work.
If you want the other user to have the same access to the library as you: to be able to add, edit, organise, keyword etc. The problem here is that OS X works very hard to keep your data safe and secure from the other users. You're trying to beat what's built in to the system. So, to beat the system
Quit iPhoto in both accounts
Move the iPhoto Library Folder to an external HD set to ignore permissions. You could also use a Disk Image or even partition your Hard Disk.
In each account in turn: Hold down the option (or alt) key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting dialogue, select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new library location. From that point on, this will be the default library location. Both accounts will have full access to the library, in fact, both accounts will 'own' it.
However, there is a catch with this system and it is a significant one. iPhoto is not a multi-user app., it does not have the code to negotiate two users simultaneously writing to the database, and trying will cause db corruption. So only one user at a time, and back up, back up back up.
Lastly: This method seems a little clunky at first, but works very well. Most importantly, it uses the System to do the job for you.
Create a new Account on your Mac, call it Media. Create an iPhoto Library there. (BTW: This will work for iTunes too.)
Enable Sharing on the Library:(Preferences -> Sharing), leave iPhoto running and use Fast User Switching to open the other accounts. In those accounts, enable 'Look For Shared Libraries'. The Library will appear in the other source pane.
This means that both users will be able to see the pics. If you want to use a pic then simply drag it from the shared Library to your own in the iPhoto Window. This means that each user can have their own edits.
If you want to add photos to the Library: Log into the Media account for that purpose.
To make it all seamless: Set your Mac to log into the Media Account automatically. Set iPhoto to launch on log-in. Then switch to your own account using Fast User Switching.
Net result: a Library that's permanently available to all users but also protected. Each user can have their own versions of the pics if they want.
No partitioning, no permissions issues. Uses no extra disk space. What's not to like?
Regards
TD

JSP sharing session among users

Hey all,
I got a simple but important problem to pass by you all.
:-) I wrote an intranet application using jsp and servlets. The issue I found is at login, the userid displayed is from a prior session. For example, I login in the morning and then leave. Another user logs in in the afternoon and sees the userid field with my userid.
I thought I would keep the value of the userid for each user, but it seems the server is keeping the session. I store the userid in a hash table and then store it in a HttpSession and pass the hash table around (much like a context). I thought HttpSession was unique for every user, so I figured GC would take out the prior session along with the data contained in it. Any ideas?
I am in QA now and hope to be implemented by Tuesday. What I did to clear out the userid field was to remove the code that preloads that field from the session. It works, but it concerns me that maybe other data might be shared.
Thanks,
Patrick

Session's are not shared across users. Actually
sessions are mainitained by a variety of ways and one
of the ways is cookies in the browser.
If i understand you right , this problems occurs in
the same machine and may be same instance of the
browser.
You might need to do the following...........
1) Make the settings in your app server so that the
session expires after some time. The session should
not be active for ever.=== The session does time out after 30 minutes.
2) Second is that have a login page and in that page
always clean the session variable.=== I get the session from request.getSession(). Do === you call invalidate() on the HttPSession object to === initialize it or just session = null?
3) Further make sure that none of the variable you use
in the JSP is in application scope ie
<%!
int session_id
%>
In this example this variable is in application scope
outside the jspservice function. And since the
servlet(ie jsp) is called in multiple threads , you
will get into the whole issue of synchronization and
stuff. So be care about this scope ...
=== I know I don't use session ids. I see the need for === them, but not in the scope of this app.
I think this would solve the problem.Thanks,
Patrick

Sharing apps between users on 1 computer

We just gave our old MBAir to a family member. We bought some basic software for her as well. After the fact it was determined that one of her daughters would benefit by its use as well and we had her create a separate user account. Despite having worked with Macs for 20 years this was the first real experience I've had with having two people using one machine with discrete accounts so I wasn't prepared for this problem. The daughter found she was unable to use the MSWord that existed in her mother's account and I am now assuming this is because each account requires its own software. Is this correct and if so is there anyway for the daughter to access the apps in her mother's account or does she have to load her own version? I wonder if MS sells multiple user licenses retroactively?
thanks
alan b

It sounds like you installed Microsoft Office in the User's Applications folder and not the main Applications folder.
Simply drag Microsoft Office folder from her Applications folder to the main folder and it will be assessible for the other User.
Only install an app in the User's Application folder if you do not want to share that app.
One other thought is they upgraded OS X to Lion or higher and they have Office 2004 that does not run under Lion and higher.

Sharing XML packages among users

Hello all,
I have a question about the installation of the Oracle XML packages and sharing them among users.
Our DBA thought it might be best to create a special user (user1) and install all of the XML packages, utilities under that user schema. We went this route and were trying to use that users's xml objects with another user (user2).
When trying to generate XML output from SQL using the xmlgen package as user2 we get the following error.
SQL> set serveroutput on size 1000000
SQL> DECLARE
2 v_query VARCHAR2(200) := 'SELECT ''monkey'' AS Animal FROM dual';
3 BEGIN
4 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(DBMS_LOB.SUBSTR(xmlgen.getXML(v_query), 250, 1));
5 END;
6 /
DECLARE
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-29532: Java call terminated by uncaught Java exception: java.util.MissingResourceException:
can't find resource for oracle.xml.sql.mesg.XSUMessages_en_US
ORA-06512: at "SXXML.XMLGEN", line 465
ORA-06512: at "SXXML.XMLGEN", line 456
ORA-06512: at line 4
However running that same anonymous PL/SQL block as user1 we get success:
SQL> set serveroutput on size 1000000
SQL> DECLARE
2 v_query VARCHAR2(200) := 'SELECT ''monkey'' AS Animal FROM dual';
3 BEGIN
4 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(DBMS_LOB.SUBSTR(sxxml.xmlgen.getXML(v_query), 250, 1));
5 END;
6 /
<?xml version = '1.0'?>
<ROWSET>
<ROW num="1">
<ANIMAL>monkey</ANIMAL>
</ROW>
</ROWSET>
So I have several questions:
1> What is the best way to install these XML packages so that all users can use these utilities?
2> What access privileges need to be granted to user2 so that user1 AML utilities are available?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Bediako George

Thanks for the quick reply Steve: I have an observation and a couple of questions.
First my observation. I looked for the java resource that "turned up missing" as far as my user2 user is concerned and I couldn't find it in sxxml's schema. ( I was logged in as sxxml). I attempted to create a wrapper package belonging to sxxml sxhema as I understood. However even after granting execute privilege to my second user I got the same message.
Finally I removed the authid as current_user tag from the package declaration and I was able to get it to work.
I am not comfortable with this solution and would like to get this set up the right way. You said my second option was to grant execute privilege on the missing Java resource to my second user.
How do I locate this "missing" Java resource?
How do I grant execute privilege to a Java resource?
What are the ramifications of solving the problem the way I did?
Thanks again for your help.
Regards,
Bediako
create or replace package xmlgen AUTHID CURRENT_USER...This means that it runs under the security domain of whatever user executes it, not under the security domain of the package owner/definer.
Either GRATN EXECUTE on this Java resource to your new user, or alternatively, have your SXXML schema create a wrapper package for XMLGEN that is created using the default of definer's rights. Then, anyone that you GRANT EXECUTE to your wrapper procedure can use it.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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Sharing Music files on the same Mac among user profiles

How can I share music among user profiles on the same Mac? I have an itunes account for me but I don't want my kids to have one yet. So, I want to download music but then share some music files for their itunes on their profile. The Home sharing feature only discusses sharing among different computers on the same network.

Check out:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1203
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20090219133314985
and:
http://steve-on-sakai.blogspot.com/2009/07/really-sharing-your-itunes-library.ht ml

Issues Using iPhoto among users on Shared profile

Hi there,
I am having issues viewing my photos from multiple user profiles. I have the library saved on a shared profile, and I (admin) can see all photos fine, however my wife can see events and thumbnails, but cannot view the photos individually - she gets just black space where the photo would be. Has anyone else encountered this? Any ideas?

I'm not sure what this means:
I have the library saved on a shared profile,
Are yu sharing the Library via iPhoto Preferences? Or Sharing by both users pointing at one Library?
For iPhoto 09 (version 8.0.2) and later:
What you mean by 'share'.
If you want the other user to be able to see the pics, but not add to, change or alter your library, then enable Sharing in your iPhoto (Preferences -> Sharing), leave iPhoto running and use Fast User Switching to open the other account. In that account, enable 'Look For Shared Libraries'. Your Library will appear in the other source pane.
Any user can drag a pic from the Shared Library to their own in the iPhoto Window.
Remember iPhoto must be running in both accounts for this to work.
If you want the other user to have the same access to the library as you: to be able to add, edit, organise, keyword etc.
Quit iPhoto in both accounts. Move the Library to the Users / Shared Folder
(You can also use an external HD set to ignore permissions, a Disk Image or even partition your Hard Disk.)
In each account in turn: Double click on the Library to open it. (You may be asked to repair the Library Permissions.) From that point on, this will be the default library location. Both accounts will have full access to the library, in fact, both accounts will 'own' it.
However, there is a catch with this system and it is a significant one. iPhoto is not a multi-user app., it does not have the code to negotiate two users simultaneously writing to the database, and trying will cause db corruption. So only one user at a time, and back up, back up back up.
Regards
TD

Sharing portlet preferences among users

Hello,
Is it possible to share portlet preferences among users? So that the
portlet preferences would be stored per portlet instance, and would be
the same for every user?
If this is not possible with Java portlets (JSR-168), can it be done
with other portlet types (JSP portlet, page flow portlet), using the
PortletPreferences API?
The JSR-168 specification says:
"Portlet Specification assumes preference attributes are user specific,
it does not make any provision at API level or at semantic level for
sharing preference attributes among users. If a portal/portlet-container
implementation provides an extension mechanism for sharing preference
attributes, it should be well documented how the sharing of preference
attributes works."

Betsy,
Does WLP provide a way to allow a user to store only a subset of all
his portlet preferences (using only JSR 168 api) ?
My aim is to try to create a JSR 168 compliant portlet where few of
the preferences are allowed to modified by the user (in the edit
mode), while all other preferences may be modified only by a portal
admin (thru admin view). However, the PortletPreferences.store()
method seems to store values of all current preferences for the
particular user, with the result that future changes by the admin are
not reflected for any user who has already customized his
preferences.You can let the admin propagate changes to the user via admin tools.
There is an option in admin tools to do that.
Setting the preference <read-only> attribute to 'true' does not help
either, as the store method still attempts to store the value and
then throws a ReadOnlyException.In this case, the setValue/setValues/reset and not the store will throw
the ReadOnlyException.
Why does WLP attempt to store all preference values; as opposed to
setting only those which have been explicitly set using
PortletPreferences.setValue(key, value)?The implementation does not keep track of changes explicitly in memory.
Even if it keeps track of changes, I'm not sure if this would solve your
use case.
Will BEA be changing this in future releases, and is there a
work-around for now?The suggested approach is to let admins propagate changes to users.
Subbu
>
Thanks, Betsy
Although WLP does not support the notion of sharing preferences,
WLP lets you manage preferences in a hierarchy via the admin tools.
When an admin sets preferences on a portlet, as long as users don't
customize their portlets, all users get the same portlet instances,
and hence share preferences.
Subbu
Bob said the following on 02/12/2004 04:08 AM:
Hello,
Is it possible to share portlet preferences amongusers? So that the
portlet preferences would be stored per portletinstance, and would be
the same for every user?
If this is not possible with Java portlets(JSR-168), can it be done
with other portlet types (JSP portlet, page flowportlet), using the
PortletPreferences API?
The JSR-168 specification says:
"Portlet Specification assumes preferenceattributes are user specific,
it does not make any provision at API level or atsemantic level for
sharing preference attributes among users. If aportal/portlet-container
implementation provides an extension mechanism forsharing preference
attributes, it should be well documented how thesharing of preference
attributes works."

Sharing Photos: Different Users, Same Computer

So far, I've tried some suggestions found in other postings, but I still can't share some photo libraries between different users on the same computer. I started an account for my son. Sharing was enabled in both iPhoto Apps. I've tried locating the libraries in a Shared folder and putting them in a folder not associated with a user. Opening a port 8770 in the Sharing/Firewall window didn't change anything either. No matter what, when I open my son's iPhoto and try to Add To Library, some libraries will import and others have a circle with a red line next to them. Those will not import and I can't figure out what the difference is between them. Any thoughts?
g4 ibook Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Hi chris,
these are the links I have for sharing. You might want to try the ACL way.
SHARING IPHOTO LIBRARIES
Sharing libraries between users on the same local network
You can also share a library on the same machine between users the same way.
Sharing libraries between users on the same machine...
-both users must have sharing enabled in their iPhoto Preferences
-both users must be logged in and have iPhoto running
-Remember that you can only view the other library. You can't edit the photos or play the saved slideshows or view the made books or burn them to CD or DVD. The books and slideshows will show up as an album. You can play that album as an "on the fly" slideshow. You can drag images from the sharing library to your library in the source column to import them to your library. You can then edit, add to albums, books, slideshow, etc.
Sharing links from Apple....
Sharing your photos between computers
About shared photos
Turning off photo sharing
Looking for shared photos
SHARING ONE IPHOTO LIBRARY BETWEEN USERS ON SAME MACHINE
You can try one of these three methods:
1- Use iPhoto Library Manager-the paid version
The documentation page will give instructions on how it is done.
2- Sharing one iPhoto library between several users on one machine
3- Share an iPhoto Library in tiger Using ACL's
4- I have also read about ShareAlike
There is no other info on the site about how it works.
I strongly urge anyone wanting to try any of the methods for sharing one iPhoto Library folder among more than one user to backup all iPhoto Library folders before attemptin anything.
Lori

Does the RMS sharing app actually work on iOS 8 for iPad?

Created a trial setup for Office 365 and Azure and Intune enabled rights managements for the Azure AD tentant and added the user to AAD premium.
Downloaded the RMS sharing app for iPad and put in an account...and it tells me the account doesn't have permission to create protected content and to contact the administrator (me)...is there some special thing to do to enable this IOS app to talk
to RMS????? Isn't RMS supposed to work out of the box with little config??? Or is this an iOS 8.1 bug???

If something goes pear shaped you'd need to restore your iPad, which puts it back to its out of box state. YOu can then redownload any available apps that you've already purchased, as well as any iTunes content. (occasionally apps get pulled from the app store, if you have one of those, then it's gone and there's nothing you can do about it)
You will lose any data associated with the apps. For example, say mine goes wrong and I don't have a backup. I've completed all the levels on Frozen Freefall. I can redownload the game, but all my progress will likely be lost so I'll have to start all over.
So while you can redownload the apps, you can lose data associated with them.
In your case, it sounds like you should make sure your chapters are saved somewhere. E-mail them toyourself, back them up on the cloud, whatever. Just make sure your only copy isn't on your iPad.
Usually, if you have a good backup, you don't end up needing it.

Photo Sharing in Separate User Profiles

I have created separate user profiles for my wife and me on our new iMac. I'm returning to Mac after time away, and I cannot remember whether there is a way for us to share the same photos in each separate profile. Thoughts?

iPhoto: Sharing libraries among multiple users...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1198

Screen Sharing Disabled Per User?

Hi, this is a repost from OSX usability forums...hopefully someone can help here:
I caught a kid cheating this morning by utilizing Screen Sharing to see what his neighbor was answering on a test. I would like to disable Screen Sharing as it pertains to the user, but I still need to run Remote Desktop and see all machines at the admin level. Each kid has an OpenDirectory account, so would it be possible to block at that level?

Block the Screen Sharing application. If the accounts are OD accounts, just add this to the MCX set and start enforcing an explicit deny on the Screen Sharing app. That should resolve it. The other option, assuming all systems have a unified admin account that the kids don't know, go into System Preferences > Sharing > Remote Management and choose "only these users" and add the local admin account only. That should set up a SACL for the ARD/Screen Sharing process to only allow access for the one user, not for all potential users of the machine.
Hope this helps

Error when trying to open On-Prem protected content in Sharing App (Android & iOS)

Hi,
I have a testing environment which I configured according to the instructions here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn673574.aspx
But when I try to open a ppdf protected by the on prem RMS server, I get the following error:
"Your local AD RMS server doesn't support your device, so this content can't be decrypted"
Any idea what I can do to resolve this issue?
Thanks,
Kfir
Troubleshooting data:
RMS server windows version:
2012
Active Directory Rights Management Services Mobile Device Extension version:
1.0.109.714
RMS sharing app version:
1.6
PS C:\Users\Administrator.QA201> Get-AdfsClient
RedirectUri : {com.microsoft.rms-sharing-for-android://authorize/}
Name : RMS Sharing App for Android
Description :
ClientId : ECAD3080-3AE9-4782-B763-2DF1B1373B3A
BuiltIn : False
Enabled : True
ClientType : Public
RedirectUri : {ms-app://windows.immersivecontrolpanel/}
Name : Device Registration Client
Description : Client for the Device Registration Service
ClientId : dd762716-544d-4aeb-a526-687b73838a22
BuiltIn : True
Enabled : True
ClientType : Public
RedirectUri : {com.microsoft.rms-sharing-for-ios://authorize/}
Name : RMS Sharing App for iOS
Description :
ClientId : 9D7590FB-9536-4D87-B5AA-FAA863DCC3AB
BuiltIn : False
Enabled : True
ClientType : Public
RedirectUri : {https://168f3ee4-63fc-4723-a61a-6473f6cb515c/redir}
Name : Windows Server Work Folders Client
Description : Client for syncing user files to a Work Folders sync share
ClientId : 168f3ee4-63fc-4723-a61a-6473f6cb515c
BuiltIn : True
Enabled : True
ClientType : Public

The issue mysteriously resolved itself. I shut down the computer, and the next day I booted back up and tried to open the same file, and everything was OK. Very bizarre, since I had opened it previously on this same MacBook. Anyway, anyone have any insight into what happened?

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