hey all, i am trying to run a program called 'kintecus' on a mac. it was originally written for win (and linux) machines, so i ended up using wine (to get the windows version running). the problem is, it creates a 'unique computer ID' which you have to send to the author in order for it to work (he will provide then a code that allows you to run the program). this is done when it starts for the first time. in my case, the program crashes with the following output: wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\ipconfig.exe" File not found so essentially, it is missing 'ipconfig.exe' for whatever reason in particular. since other programs can access the internet (firefox), the problem must lay somewhere else. i was wondering if there was any other program that also has to use 'ipconfig.exe' so that i might simply take the same instructions (e.g. for winetricks). running wine 1.2rc7 (and kintecus.v3.962), everything should be quite up to date. reinstalling wine (+ deleting ~/.wine) didn't do the job. i am pretty new to all this stuff, but i did my best in figuring out the problem on my own - up till now. thanks in advance, carl
came <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> >wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\ipconfig.exe" >File not found >ipconfig.exe does not exist in Wine. Is this program available as a demo/trial so that I can try to find a workaround? James McKenzie
James Mckenzie wrote:> came <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote: > > > > > wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\ipconfig.exe" > > File not found > > > > > ipconfig.exe does not exist in Wine. > > Is this program available as a demo/trial so that I can try to find a workaround? > > James McKenzieif you work at an educational institution, the license is for free, you have to follow instructions: http://www.kintecus.com/academic.htm /carl
hey thomas, you are right, ipconfig.exe comes with the 'normal' windows, but not with wine. i tried copying the file (+ some dll's needed) from a windows installation, but that didn't help. in general, i think this should not be done, as it essentially crashes wine (other programs don't start anymore). best, carl
came <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> >hey, > >ipconfig.exe alone won't start, copying the requested dll's (nsi.dll, dhcpcsvc.dll and dhcpcsvc6.dll) doesn't help >it want's more, so to say), copying all dll's ended in not solving the problem and leaving the other wine- >programs broken as well. >and exactly when that happened, i reset my system ;) >Solving this may require some effort. However, could you please file a bug report and create an Applications Database entry with this information? James McKenzie
What happens if you fool the program by faking a ipconfig.exe? (On Linux you could try something like : cp -rf /usr/lib/wine/secedit.exe.so /usr/lib/wine/ipconfig.exe.so secedit.exe.so is just a stubbed program with no functionality not sure how this would look like on a MAC; if it doesn;t help the program, just remove the fake ipconfig.exe again: rm -rf /usr/lib/wine/ipconfig.exe.so)