wine users - Oct 2009 - Installing Wine on SLED 11

Hi
I have been given the task of getting a SLED 11 machine working on my
company's Novell NetWare 6.x network and able to run some of the
applications that we use. 1 of the apps is installed on our servers and normally
we would copy the .exe to the users desktop. I have been referred here by the
Novell and the OpenSUSE forums. The application is not installed on the pc but
runs the .exe. How can I get this Application to work?

Thanks

On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 03:29 -0500, bcbotha wrote:
> I have been given the task of getting a SLED 11 machine working on my
> company's Novell NetWare 6.x network and able to run some of the
> applications that we use. 1 of the apps is installed on our servers
> and normally we would copy the .exe to the users desktop. I have been
> referred here by the Novell and the OpenSUSE forums. The application
> is not installed on the pc but runs the .exe. How can I get this
> Application to work?
> 
Does this mean that you want to continue running the application on the
user's Windows desktop? If so, is it using the server just to access
files and/or a database or is it talking to a program that's resident on
the server?

If you no longer want to run the application on the user's Windows
desktop, please explain what you what to run, where you want each
executable to run and where it is expecting to find its files and/or
database.

Martin

> Thanks
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Well the point in setting up the SLED machine is to look at migrating from
Microsoft to Linux. The database of the program is on the server, I just need to
find a way to run the .exe from the server. On our windows workstation we create
a shotcut from the server to the individual workstations, they run the shortcut
which is pointing to the server and its database.

How can I do that on a linux desktop?

bcbotha wrote:
> How can I do that on a linux desktop?
Mount your server share with SAMBA (cifs file system). Note that CIFS does not
support some things (file locking) that might break some apps.