wine users - Sep 2007 - Wine does not start apps when connected to a Windows network

Hi,

I'm having this weird problem with all computers I have tried, but they all 
run Gentoo so it may still be a configuration problem.  What happens is that 
all apps run through Wine work fine on my computer, but if I start another 
computer in the network in Windows, I am not able to start most applications 
with Wine; or rather, they hang foverer instead of starting.  This happens to 
nearly all applications, but not all.  Examples that work fine include 
regedit, but winecfg and wordpad do not.

Does anyone have a solution for this?  It is especially troublesome when 
playing network games, as you can imagine.


Regards,

Alexander N. S?rnes

You should try to get a stack backtrace of the programs when they are 
hung:
  - start a program and wait until it hangs
  - on a different console type "winedbg"
  - if even winedbg hangs then you have a problem. If not then type 
"info process"
  - find the process id of the process that is hanging and attach the 
debugger to it: "attach 0x<num>" (the ids in "info
process" are in hex
so that's why the 0x is needed. This is a different thing than the Linux 
pids)
  - type "info thread" to check how many threads have the program
  - type "bt 0x<tid>" for each thread of the hanged program
(where tid
is the thread id you have found with info thread)
  Such a backtrace could give some more details what's happening.

Miko?aj Zalewski