On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Simon Guest wrote:

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A workaround is to arrange other location for them by "SecureDirectory" setting in Squeak.INI, that is located in same folder as squeak.exe. The documentation for the INI file is: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3274 .

I changed the location of the UserDirectory and the SecureDirectory in the squeak.ini file to point into my profile, like this:

[Security] UserDirectory=%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Squeak\UserDirectory SecureDirectory=C:\Documents and Settings\sjg\Application Data\Squeak\SecureDirectory

This causes it all to work just fine as a normal user (sjg). Thanks for the suggestion.

However, I note that environment variables are not supported in the SecureDirectory, so it's not actually possible to set this to different directories for different users, which would be ideal. I had a quick look at the file sqWin32Security.c in the VM source code. Lines 226-230 (in the latest version) do this:

/* Expand any environment variables in user directory. */ dwSize = ExpandEnvironmentStrings(untrustedUserDirectory, tmp, MAX_PATH-1); if(dwSize > 0 && dwSize < MAX_PATH) strcpy(untrustedUserDirectory, tmp);

but there is no corresponding line for the SecureDirectory. Could I suggest a similar thing be done as this? Otherwise it is not in fact possible, I think, to easily set up Squeak to run for different users from the same installation.

Running squeak on Linux-machines, I'd apprechiate such a solution, too. For the moment I'm using forced symbolic links, which works, but is complicated, since the computers at our school are so-called multiseat-systems, whence up to four users are using the same image simultaniously at the same time.

I'm still investigating the effect of sharing an image file between different users, and whether I need to address this as well.

No problem with this on Linux - in my case, the image-file is write-protected.

Markus ----------------------------------------------- Markus Schlager m.slg(at)gmx.de