Multiuser support available

[rondrer]

cool thing... but doesn't work for me did everything as described in the readme but changes affect only the original winamp-dir and not in my user home-dir

[chris_31]

Hmmm...
@MasterVivi: I know upgrading is a little tricky; but if you understand the working of the program, then upgrading is not a big deal. I'll post the upgrade procedure here.

1. set AdministrativeRun to 1 in the registry
2. start Winamp, copy the reference settings to the main dir.
3. stop Winamp, DO NOT commit changes. (Well, there's simply no point in committing them).
4. rename msacm32.dll to msacm32.dll.dead (or something similar) in the main dir
5. Upgrade winamp.
6. rename msacm32.dll.dead back to msacm32.dll
7. start winamp, *DO NOT* copy the reference dir back.
8. stop winamp, commit changes.
9. set AdministrativeRun to 0.

There still *might* be some issues after upgrading, simply because the files in the user's home directory are now from an older version (however I have not experienced any problems so far). This problem is inherent and can not be overcome easily. Maybe version 1.0 will try and deal with these more elaborate problems ;-) (I'm about to collect ideas for enhancements).

That being said, please explain a bit more the problems you have...

@MasterVivi: what exactly doesn't work with the plugins?
@rondrer: Are you sure the dll actually gets loaded (set AdministrativeRun to 1 and check if the messagebox appears as stated in the readme)?

Waiting for comments,
cheers,
Chris

[rondrer]

Yeah! It's working

Don't know why, but after I startet it with adminitrativerun the msg-box appeared and then, after changing adminrun back to normal, it worked =)

thx for help

[MasterViVi]

New plugins get deleted =p

Going through all that is a wee bit much, since I test alot of stuff

[chris_31]

Originally posted by MasterViVi
New plugins get deleted =p

Going through all that is a wee bit much, since I test alot of stuff

Well, no, they don't get deleted (not for me at least). But they do get installed only for the user who installed them (except with adminruns...).

The whole point is, you'll have to actually "install" the plugin _while_ Winamp is running, so the change in the file system gets noticed by wamulti. Otherwise, it just assumes the new file is left over from some previous user and deletes it.

So you're half right, and I'm half right

[NiGHTS]

Hey i really love this! Except twice this has happened: my one has gone back to the very default! I don't know why.... never happened to the other user - but then again he doesn;t use it as much.

ALl my playlists, media library,layout, skin, etc all reverts

Any ideas why?

[MasterViVi]

Nope, got it too. The plug-ins DO get deleted, anyway or another, and it reverst to default every three days so I have to add all my media again. >_<

[chris_31]

version 0.7.1 is out

OK then, new version is out. Lots of changes & improvements, hopefully not lots of new bugs

The problems you've mentioned should be gone. Let me guess: You had the user log off without shutting winamp down? There was a race condition in wamulti <= 0.6.2 that could lose data in this case. This is gone now.

Also, improvements that should ease the installation of plugins much more. The new logic now checks file ownership* and doesn't delete/overwrite files owned by the currently executing user. (that means that files that are changed even while winamp is not running are not lost...)

* this needs an NTFS file system. On FAT partitions, the program will behave just as before.

Last major change: wabmcopy has gone, its functionality is now included in msacm32.dll.

Upgrading is recommended,
see upgrade.txt for howto.

Well, looking forward to comments...

Cheers, Chris

[shakey_snake]

I could kiss you.
Wait a sec...
Chris as is Christina or Chris as in Christopher?

[WanderingKnight]

Question. If I install this with say... 2 users on a XP Home system, and it all works and stuff, what happens if I add a third user? Do I need re-install?

[Nunzio390]

OFF-TOPIC...
I'm hijacking this thread for one second here.

@ WanderingKnight...

This is something you might be interested in. I have 2 images sitting at my server that you can choose from for your avatar if you like. They are both 50px x 50px in width and height, thus conforming to the avatar rules...

wandering_knight1.gif

wandering_knight2.gif

Now, if you'd like to use either of the 2 images for your avatar, do not reference them at my server. Instead, right-click on one of the images and select "Save Image As...", so that you can first download the image to your hard drive, and then upload it to the Winamp forums server as an avatar.

Okay, sorry folks for going off-topic and hijacking this thread, but WanderingKnight's forums member name reminded me of those 2 images at my server.

I now humbly return this topic to it's original purpose re: Multiuser Support. My apologies to you, chris_31, for temp-hijacking your thread.

Later!!

[chris_31]

@WanderingKnight: It'll work without problems. If a user doesn' have her own settings (as is the case with a newly added user), she'll use the default settings. When Winamp is closed, the settings will be saved to her personal folder.
So, no, of course no reinstallation is needed (Well THAT would be a pain in the a#%! )

@shakey_snake: I'm afraid it's chris as in Christoph (look at the download link...) But wait, aren't there female snakes also?

[WanderingKnight]

Originally posted by chris_31
@WanderingKnight: It'll work without problems. If a user doesn' have her own settings (as is the case with a newly added user), she'll use the default settings. When Winamp is closed, the settings will be saved to her personal folder.
So, no, of course no reinstallation is needed (Well THAT would be a pain in the a#%! )

OK, so does this mean if I don't want to use a "clean" install of winamp, I can set winamp up how I like it with several plugins or whatever, and use that as the default that I copy to the reference folder? if I do do that, and someone UNinstalls a plugin, does that affect everyone?

[chris_31]

Sure, this is exactly how it's meant to be.
Set up a reference copy as you want it - with as many or as little plugins as you want.

Any changes a user makes will only affect that user, not the settings of other users.

[Johann B]

Hmm, I am looking for some file and some path...

Hi Chris,
Just installed your tool. Unfortunately, and this is absolutely my own shortcoming, I forget to change some path somewhere.

I altered the .dll file as you mentioned that in your readme, which is that I changed Program Files to Programme and a different log-off warning.
Now, whenever I log-on as a restricted user, the first thing to come up is a message saying "Fehler beim laden von C:\Program Files\Winamp\msacm32.dll
Das angegebene Modul wurde nicht gefunden. " (Sorry guys, but my machine speaks German). Where do I specify that relevant path so that I could change it to Programme.

Thanks for your help,

Cheers,

Johann