Re: Forms 4.5 (1.4W) with multiuser NT

Stephen Tyson wrote:
>
> In article <33d3c29f.1565970156_at_news.orst.edu>, greera_at_ucs.orst.edu says...
> >We have 4 user accounts on the Citrix NT machine (PROD, DEVL, DEV2,
> >and TRNG). Each of these users requires a different Forms45_Path
> >setting in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/ORACLE registry tree as
> >they access different groups of forms. Each of these users has a
> >mandatory profile which limits their access to only the F45run.exe
> >application.
> >
> >With Dev/2000 1.2.1, we could use different oracle.ini files for each
> >that were stored in each user's private directory. With Dev/2000 1.4W
> >(or 1.3) we don't have this option.
> You could set up 4 Forms Listeners, each on a different port. The Listener port
> is specified in the dummy HTML page that starts off the Java applet. So, your
> PROD users would have one URL and DEVL users would have another, and so on.

This is off topic somewhat, but NT is not a multi-user OS. Only one person can _login_ and use the CPU for user-level processes at a time. What has been suggested will establish 4 services (a.k.a daemons) as Oracle listeners. To use more than one of these services _at_the_same_time_ would require other installation(s) of Dev/2000 installed on other box(s) connecting to the listener ports of your primary installation. This is multi-tasking of the primary box, not multi-user. NT's paradigm is for a single user to sit at the console - just like Win3.1 and Win95. It also happens to be able to share file and print services like Novell, and other assorted network services like UNIX. The multi-tasking in the NT kernel is not designed for multiple user shells and there's no provision for additional login shells (or even changing your login id within a session).

.....just wanted to clarify, it's an easy point to miss, but is fundamental to how you design a development environment..... Received on Wed Jul 23 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT