MS Office and Network Home Directories

Mar 14, '03 09:40:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

As already noted in this forum MS Office crashes when the user has a network home directory. This is because of the existance of the file "Office Registration Cache X". The existing hint only helps if you have your home on a HFS+ volume mounted via AFP, not if it comes from a NFS server.

The same can be achieved there, too: Start office once to get the prefs set up. Go to the fileserver and remove the cache file and create an empty file with the same name. Change the owner of the cache file to root and then do the same for the Microsoft folder. You HAVE to have all prefs file setup once before doing this, otherwise only root can help you.

A shell script to run on the server might look like this:

cd ~user/Library/Preferences/Microsoft
rm ._Office\ Registration\ Cache\ X
rm Office\ Registration\ Cache\ X
touch Office\ Registration\ Cache\ X
chown root Office\ Registration\ Cache\ X
chown root .
[robg adds: There are a couple of older hints (1, 2) that discuss related issues.]

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