Hi all, After Googling around a while, I've found bits and pieces of my puzzle, but never someone who's got the whole thing. Here's what I'm trying: - Run MS Access 97 and MYOB - Under FreeBSD 5.3 - With multiple simultaneous users (X Terminals) Access 97 and MYOB are the only Windows programs we'll need to run, everything else will be done with "native" applications. How well does Wine work in a terminal server environment? Will I need separate installs in each user's home directories, or will some clever symlinks save the day? How do native Windows 98SE DLLs like being accessed simultaneously? Am I nuts for even trying? Thanks for any help you can offer. ......jurgen -- thinger@gmail.com is jurgen's gmail address. Visit http://jurgen.ca/ for more yummy goodness.
I read the docs and they say if my sound in linux is all correct, I should have sound in wine... but I don't seem to. My main concern is for a program called Rosetta Stone, I have finally made the other tweaks necessary so that it runs, but when it's supposed to play voices I hear nothing. It uses (and installed) quicktime, so maybe it's quicktime I need to get sound from? But if I click the quicktime icon it put on my desktop my screen goes nuts and I have to restart the xserver to make my computer usable again. However, the Rosetta Stone software apparently is running fine, just no noise. I'm running 2.6.8, Gnome, ALSA... not sure what else is relevant.
Am Mi, Feb 23, 2005 at 04:56:49 +1100 schrieb jurgen:> - Run MS Access 97 and MYOB > - Under FreeBSD 5.3 > - With multiple simultaneous users (X Terminals)As a first step: Have you got your program run for a single user? In principle this should work. But I have no experienes with Wine and FreeBSD.> How well does Wine work in a terminal server environment? Will I need > separate installs in each user's home directories, or will some clever > symlinks save the day? How do native Windows 98SE DLLs like being > accessed simultaneously? Am I nuts for even trying?You can have a fake_c on NFS or what ever you prefer. Link it into the users .wine directories and copy the registry to their registries. DLLs are not a problem as every user starts it's own Wine instance. Regards Joachim -- "Never touch a running system! Never run a touching system? Never run a touchy system!!!"
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:56:49 +1100, jurgen wrote:> - Run MS Access 97 and MYOBI don't know many people using Access, possibly it doesn't work at all. Try making it work with CrossOver or WineHQ on Linux first.> - Under FreeBSD 5.3Risky. FreeBSD is broken is misc ways which mean Wine is less reliable there (and a bunch of stuff isn't implemented for that platform).> - With multiple simultaneous users (X Terminals)To do that you need to have a separate user account for each display, because you can't have 1 wineserver with many Win32 processes on different displays.> How well does Wine work in a terminal server environment? Will I need > separate installs in each user's home directories, or will some clever > symlinks save the day? How do native Windows 98SE DLLs like being > accessed simultaneously? Am I nuts for even trying?We (CodeWeavers) sell a terminal server solution which you may want to investigate. thanks -mike
----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Hearn <mike@navi.cx> Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 3:55 am Subject: [Wine]Re: Am I attempting the impossible?> > How well does Wine work in a terminal server environment? Will I > need> separate installs in each user's home directories, or will > some clever > > symlinks save the day? How do native Windows 98SE DLLs like being > > accessed simultaneously? Am I nuts for even trying? > > We (CodeWeavers) sell a terminal server solution which you may > want to > investigate. > > thanks -mikeSo does Win4Lin - http://www.win4lin.com. David gnome@hawaii.rr.com
Hi, Thanks, everyone, for your suggestions. Looks like I'm a bit on my own here :-) I'll bash my head against my original FreeBSD/Wine/Access 97 plans for a while, adapt some single-user howtos I've seen on the net, and report back my foaming-at-the-mouth frustration or jubilant back-slapping to the list once I make some headway. I've looked at the CodeWeavers terminal server solution briefly a couple of weeks ago. It's interesting, and I may end up going that way. I do want to try it myself first though, and I'm avoiding running Linux if possible. Religious issues better discussed elsewhere. :-) Thanks again, .......jurgen