Hello forum, I am a Teacher at a German school and I want to get rid of Windows. I successfully installed Ubuntu 10.04LTS and configured the system to run as needed. My Problem is the following: I have 900 Users. If all of them use wine to start a program, every user installs his own .wine directory with all the content. Soon I have gigabytes of redundant stuff. Also I need to install some winetricks and I don't want to let the users do so. With linux programmes (and with wine itself) I can install everything global with sudo. How can I install the needed wine-components and the needed "helpers" (e.g. mdac28) global as well? Thanks for your help Roland
robuntu I am sorry I have some really bad news. http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10495 Wine really does not support multi user. There has been lack of developers and resources required to cure this problem. Wine itself only provides 1 secuirty level to applications being administrator. Implementing this is basically a large project to say the least. Now I do have a few reduction things. Some duplicate file hunters for Linux support hard linking to master copies. So reducing the overhead. Using lessfs for wine directories is another option. Basically no good option really. Normally while in migration I end up deploying a windows terminal server. And use that for the remaining apps.