[K12OSN] OT- wine and user accounts

[rmcdaniel at indata.us]

Barry,

It worked like a charm.  Thanks sooooooo much for the helpful reply!


Ron


Ronald R. McDaniel
Conecuh County Schools
rmcdaniel at indata.us



> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [K12OSN] OT- wine and user accounts
> From: Barry Cisna <brcisna at eazylivin.net>
> Date: Tue, February 06, 2007 8:58 pm
> To: k12osn at redhat.com
> 
> Hi Ron,,,again,,,
> 
>  Ask and ye shall receive,,:) I found on an Ubuntu forum the following.
> Install all your Windows apps under wine as a user. Dont make any diff
> who the user is. Once you have them all installed,log into the server as
> root via VNC or console. Make a folder called  /wine. Make sure all your
> hidden folders are showing. Now, copy everything under the users
> homefolder/.wine that you installed the windows apps under. Make sure you
> select All the sub folders under user/home/.wine to > /wine. Should be
> ./wine/dosdevices /drive_c & three .reg files >to /wine. Now you can make
> a launcher as root and drag to "everyone gets the launcher" on the roots
> desktop or make a launcher for just a few users,by username.
> I DID try this and it does work .Make sure in the wine(newfolder)
> subfolders everything is
> chmod -c -R 755 /wine/
> This will give you Windows apps system wide and makes all the Winders
> users happy!
> Hope thus helps.
> 
> Take care,
> Barry Cisna
> westcentral school
> 
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