Java Web Start app icons keep going in user profile not All Users profile

[Brad]

We are deploying a java web start application that has been programmed
and delivered to us by an outside vendor onto several machines that
are shared by different users.

All of the users log onto our network and authenticate to a windows
domain.

We would like all of the icons and java items to be deployed into the
All Users profile so that other people that use these PCs don't have
to keep reinstalling the applications and the icons.

We have changed some of the jnlp files and the temporary files section
of the javaws preferences to point to the all users profile section
and have told javaws not to create icons and generally have
accomplished our goal, BUT...

When a new jar file is deployed, (which happens automatically at app
launch to keep weveryone in sync with the correct versions), javaws
deletes the all users icon and creates a new one on the users personal
desktop.

When the next user logs in, they will not see any icons.

Are we missing something? We have tried this with several versions of
javaws including the most current and all seem to behave identically.

....or is there something the app vendor must specify to make this
work?

Thanks,
Brad

 

[Roedy Green]

Are we missing something? We have tried this with several versions of
javaws including the most current and all seem to behave identically.

the first thing to understand is that JAWS itself knows nothing about
features of windows peculiar to windows. Your JAWS app is just as
happy to install on a Mac or Unix. The notion of the end user
installing just for himself for everyone is a windows notion. In any
other operating system the idea would be considered a ludicrous breach
of security. Normally installing for everyone is done by the
administrator.

I would try an experiment and see what JAWS does if the administrator
does the install.

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