wine users - Mar 2009 - Getting a proprietary Win32 application running on Wine

Hello there!

I'm trying to get a proprietary business application running.
It is basically a kind of a special small business accounting 
app which can be used in a distributed manner. If it is configured
this way, the server installation is running an MSSQL server
instance locally to store the data, while a client installation
just uses the remote server installation (apparently directly
connects to the remote MSSQL instance). I'd be very happy if
I could get at least a client installation running under Wine
while running the server installation under a real Windows
environment.

The client software package installs under Wine seamlessly.
When started, it crashes with an exception until I install
Microsoft Database Engine. With MSDE installed the program
does start up but stops immediately with an error dialog
basically saying that it cannot connect to the database.

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 4:36 AM, RUMI Szabolcs <rumi_ml at rtfm.hu>
wrote:
> Hello there!
>
> I'm trying to get a proprietary business application running.
> It is basically a kind of a special small business accounting
> app which can be used in a distributed manner. If it is configured
> this way, the server installation is running an MSSQL server
> instance locally to store the data, while a client installation
> just uses the remote server installation (apparently directly
> connects to the remote MSSQL instance). I'd be very happy if
> I could get at least a client installation running under Wine
> while running the server installation under a real Windows
> environment.
>
> The client software package installs under Wine seamlessly.
> When started, it crashes with an exception until I install
> Microsoft Database Engine. With MSDE installed the program
> does start up but stops immediately with an error dialog
> basically saying that it cannot connect to the database.
> From a quick .exe strings analysis I believe it has been
> coded in Borland Delphi.
>
> Well, it is possible that this is only some network level
> issue (LMHOSTS lookup failing or whatever) but realistically
> I suspect that there could be some deeper problem than that
> as the program fails to create some OLE objects etc.
>
> How do I start to make it work?
>
> I can send a Wine debug log if somebody with a clue would
> be so kind to look into it...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sab
>
>
Try:

$ wget kegel.com/wine/winetricks
$ sh winetricks hosts jet40

-- 
-Austin

try to add an override for the ole32.dll in winecfg. worked for me with another
app

RUMI Szabolcs wrote:
> On the network I see SYN packets going out to the server and only
> RST+ACK packets coming back every time.
Looks like it's not even listening on that port. You sure it's
configured with tcp/ip not named pipes?