wine users - Mar 2007 - Re: Multiple users without write permission on "drive_c"

Grischa Stegemann <grix7-usenet@yahoo.de> wrote:
> I have a multiuser environment with lots of users. Some of them are
supposed to
> use a program running with wine. The problem is how to make the users in
> question use a global "drive_c" directory without giving them
write permissions
> to it?
> 
> So far I have a wrapper script which copies a '.wine' skeleton into
the users
> home directory with apropriate links in '.wine/dosdevices' and
afterwards
> calls 'wine $myprogram'.
> That works up to the point where the user launches a file dialog in
$myprogram
> where he doesn't see any directories because of a
> missing 'drive_c/windows/profiles/$USER'.
> 
> Giving the users write access to 'drive_c/windows/profiles' is NOT
an option.
> So how can I have multiple (arbitrary) users using the same "windows
> installation" without write permissions on the corresponding
'drive_c'?
You'll have to give each user his own drive_c. To avoid wasting lots of
disk space you can use lndir (1).
> Besides, I also would like to know how to define a larger default font for
the
> programs running with wine. http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys is
NOT
> helpful here since it does not clarify which exact keys should be set to
what
> values in order to change which font to this and that size... :-/ This may
be
> due to my lack of knowledge about Windows of course....
The wiki is down ATM, but there is an entry concerning DPI or some such
thing. IIRC, increasing this value will increase the displayed font
size.

Daniel