Questions tagged [multiple-users]
Questions regarding software or devices usable by more than one person.
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Editing the same file from multiple computers
My friend and I need to view and edit the same file at the same time. We were using Google Docs, but the firewall is now blocking it.
If we connected our computers with a network cable (no hub or ...
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If I created a task on a user called "A" and I want it to be executed on user "B", how do I do it?
I'm looking for help with "Task Scheduler" Windows 10
I don't know how to do it but basically, I have two users, "A" has admin rights and "B" does not.
I also saved the ....
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How to determine if there's access to the Exchange Admin Center as a user?
Just looking to disable read receipts in Outlook.
AI says:
Copilot
To disable read receipts from portal.office.com email settings, you can follow these steps:
1. Sign into your Office admin account ...
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"dscl . list /users" command on Mac to know if hacked
I have a feeling that my macbook is hacked so I searched online and used the "dscl . list /users" to find out if there is any suspicious results. I got a huge list of weird names of users ...
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Windows Multiple Desktop - different users active at same time
I couldn't see any specific answer so asking the community directly.
Using the "Windows Multiple Desktop Feature" (see picture linked below in case of ambiguity) can I have one Windows User (...
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What is this .txt file in All Users of my PC?
I have come across an entry on my Lenovo ThinkPad laptop in Computer>System(C)>Users>All Users that I need an explanation for, as in what Log file was being created on 08/05/18, Removing ASPI,...
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One Google Drive Account, Multiple Windows Users
There are two similar questions to this one that I can find: here and here. I am in this situation, and wondering if anything has changed in 9 years: I want one (1) (count 'em one) Google Drive ...
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In Chrome with multiple users open, how can I quit just one of them?
I have multiple users in Chrome open. Each has multiple windows.
To restore a user not currently open, I can just go to users -> [user x] and it restores properly.
However, how can I quit Chrome ...
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Windows 10 gives us shutdown trouble about other user
We are running a Windows 10 pro 64bit computer next door, in French GUI and with more than 10 users. I am in charge (administrator user) but working in several places.
A few days ago, we started ...
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Cannot access Vaultwarden admin page and cannot get more users
I need some help because I do not know what I am doing wrong: The first issue is that I cannot get to access the admin page. When I access https://myvaultwardendomain.io/admin I get a 401 error ...
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Persist user selection on login screen after reboot on Windows 11
I use an Azure AD instance for my home desktop logins. To deter my wife from nuking my carefully curated Firefox tabs again, I created an account for her and set it up with Windows Hello and a nice ...
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How to reassign uid:gid to all users and automatically fix all file ownerships and permissions?
I want to reassign new uid:gid to all existing users and automatically fix all file ownerships and permission.
The user names will stay the same just the uids and gids will be updated.
How can I ...
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Linux - Setting up a multi-user and multi-machine system where anyone can log to their user from any machine
I Have the following setup:
Many computers (all of them have the latest Ubuntu), and more users than computers. I would like to make it so anyone can log to their user from any computer, and they have ...
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Prevent zoom changes in Windows when switching users
Whenever I switch between two users in my Windows 10, it keeps readjusting the zoom level. However both users have the same 150% zoom level set. I am not sure why Windows goes back to 100% for a short ...
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How can I allow all users to read/write/modify/delete files on Samba share? (re: home network)
I'm having difficulty understanding file/directory permissions especially with Samba.
On my server (Debian 11, Samba 4.13.13), I've created several different users and added them to samba (ie. ...
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Office professional plus [closed]
Office professional plus I've just installed on my laptop their are three of us who use laptop but only I'm able to use office not the others how do I enable office on their accounts
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Disable background loading of user profile before logging in
I have a multi-user installation of Windows 10 (a private and a work profile). When starting the computer, the last logged-in user is preselected and when logging in, the profile is loaded immediately,...
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How to Hibernate Just Current Session in Windows
If we hibernate a PC, it writes everything to hard disk for all users. However I need it only for one user. In other words other users should be able to use the PC. When we lock the current session or ...
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What exactly are the differences between Chrome users and browser profiles?
Google Chrome supports both multiple users and multiple browser user profiles. To add to the confusion, the end of the latter Google Support page reads:
Creating a new Chrome user is another quick ...
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Is it possible to change an installed application from a specific user to all users?
For example, when installing python - I had the option to select all users during the installation but did not choose the option.
If I wanted to change the installation such that the program would be ...
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Does filtering a table in Excel stored in SharePoint Online filter it for all the other people looking at the Sheet?
I’ve used earlier versions of Excel where filtering a sheet meant that it would do the same for others on the network with the file open; is the same true of one stored in SharePoint Online?
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How to run 2 different computers with one CPU and using VMware [duplicate]
I have a good CPU i7 4.4ghz 16 GB ram and 6GB 1060 Graphics card.
Also, I have an old i5 laptop.
Is there any way for the laptop to run using my CPU resources simultaneously?
I am short on funds and ...
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Selectively mount network drives for non-root users
How should one specify different mounts for different users?
The simplest use case is, that different users have their own dedicated storage space in a server (NFS or CIFS), what only they can access.
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How to block Users for backup?
I have Windows 10.
I'm using "iDrive" to backup 600GB to an external hard drive (4TB) using USB 2.0.
Last time estimate it gave me was over 24 hours.
I need to block all my family (3 other ...
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command not found after switching users
Using debian, (running as an image for docker container), I run these following commands.
user>>service
(shows hints)
user>>su - root
root>>su - docker
user>>service
(command ...
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Remote desktop as different window/user?
I've installed Windows 10 on my father's PC with 2 accounts: User1 and User2. Is it possible for him to use User1 and for me to use User2 at the same time? I'll be connecting with some remote desktop ...
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Audio not playing in an application with setreuid() & setgid(), but works with sudo -u command
I have a Arch Linux system with alsa and pulseaudio configured. alsa is set to use pulseaudio default device. Pulseaudio is rumming with tcp module enabled on 127.0.0.1 and anonymous set to true. The ...
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Multi user full disk encryption - larger than 8 user threshold. i.e. Not luks
I know Luks has a maximum of 8 I need something that does what LUKS does but allows multiple keys more than the maximum of 8.
All users will need to be able to access root.
It will be used regularly ...
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Is it possible to run two windows sessions from the same computer at the same time?
A friend asked me if it is possible to have two screen/keyboards/mouse connected to one computer, and allowing two users to use the computer as if they where using two different computers (one ...
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2 players on 1 PC
I have a really good PC, Ryzen 1700x, GTX 1080Ti, all watercooled and overclocked and for now I was just playing alone and all was easy out of the box, but now my wife is interested in gaming, and ...
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How can I close a Google Chrome profile?
When I install Windows or Linux (Ubuntu/Mint), I start off by installing Google Chrome. I sign in and sync 4 users within Chrome (4 Gmail accounts).
My extensions are sync'd as well. There is a ...
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Allow to users to RDP into same Session on Same User
So im running a console application that logs a lot of information and also contains a user interface that 2 people will have to access, so hear me out - The 2 people the developers me and a friend, ...
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Forcing ssh to a login using a specific user when requst is made to a specific port
I want to set up a small thing where friends of mine can ssh into my server and join a tiny chatroom. Now I have most of it setup, but I don't know how to make it so that the client username is ...
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Is it possible to run two windows sessions from the same computer at the same time? (linux)
Is possible to have two screen/keyboards/mouse connected to one computer, and allowing two users to use the computer as if they where using two different computers (one sessions for each input/output)
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How to make a multi-user system(windows 10)? [duplicate]
I have an idea to use my pc to access my friend's pc's user remotely from home while he is using the other user on the his pc. How can I setup this multi-user system?
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Multiple simultaneous users on a single windows pc AND monitor? [closed]
I have a Windows 10 PC with a 4k TV as a monitor. I would like to have two simultaneous users where each user can use half a screen.
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Should I be concerned? My terminal says that someone's iPhone is connected to my Mac
Recently I've been using a lot of public WiFi and fidgeting with my network settings to use network proxy tools like Burp.
Today I opened my terminal and saw this a foreign device as the user:
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Should I be able have more than one login on the same windows machine use the same VPN?
Three or four logins may be active on my windows 10 machine at the same time with remote desktop. I installed NordVPN assuming all users would go through the same VPN. NordVPN technicians say this is ...
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Is there a way of running two concurrent VNC sessions, one per logged on user?
Apologies if this would be better on ServerFault, but I need to view logged on sessions on a remote computer with two concurrent RDP sessions.
Ideally the session would be available to connect to, ...
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Two distinct users on Windows at the same time [duplicate]
Can two distinct users legally and ToS-compliantly use the same Windows 10 machine simultaneously (i.e. both being logged in)? If it helps, allow for remote connections.
An ideal answer would be ...
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Windows 7 - Dual Monitors - Dual users logged in?
I have a machine with 2 different user accounts. I also have dual monitors. Is there any application (free) out there that will let me be logged into both user accounts, one for each monitor...
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How to make a read-only data connection to a read-write locked MS Access using MS Excel?
My concern is that there is a read-write lock in the file I want to connect to because it is being used by an application as shown:
Locked MS Access File
When I try to refresh the data connection in ...
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How can a read-only purpose data connection to MS Excel/Access from MS Excel prevent the MS Access file from being locked to edits?
My concern is that I use MS Excel to make a data connection with several MS Access/MS Excel files, but there is no writing involved. The only thing the data connection is used for is to extract data. ...
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Two people using the same computer at the same time remotely!
We have two computer in office and two people. My computer is much more faster than another computer. Is it possible my colleague connect to my computer remotely and work by my computer?
Using "...
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how to have multiple user logged on the same machine with diffrent sesions
Is it possible to have to have let's say two users on the same machine where each one of them has their own monitor and keyboard can they both be logged on the same machine on the same time and work ...
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Would HDMI Splitter work with Softxpand or Userful setup
Trying to setup a multi-user system at my school (1 desktop with 6 users). Just wondering if I could avoid additional vga/hdmi graphics cards in the host computer and use an HDMI splitter like this ...
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"Seamless" multi user session in linux/X11
The goal
I would love to have a multi user system (based on linux) using only one X11 session with multiple screens and pairs of mouse and keyboard. So two (or more) people can work with the same ...
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How can I sync files between cloned systems?
I'm teaching children programming with Scratch and we're giving each student a Raspberry Pi to use. I want to be able to give them extra files for lessons down the road (like new background or sprite ...
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XRDP-type server for use on Windows 10?
I did some searching myself, but couldn't find anything.
What I would like be able to do is to connect to Windows 10 from the latest Ubuntu via RDP or something similar, without interrupting the ...
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