I sent this yesterday, but I've seen no sign of it arriving on the list and certainly no responses. ANy help, please? This is kind of urgent. Hiya all! I'm a new WINE user on OS X 10.6.7. I'm trying to install Quickbooks 2006 for Windows XP on WINE and all goes well UNTIL I try to launch the successfully installed app and get an error 3371 at launch. What that means is that Quickbooks can't find the authorization key. On further investigation, I find that the reason for this is that the authorization key should have been installed in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Intuit\Entitlement Client v2 but wasn't because this directory doesn't exist. in Wine Files in my home directory. I assume there is a way to create it or fake it. I'd love to know what that way is. Anyone care to tell me? TIA! Joshua Joshua Whalen +1 (646) 770-0490 joshuafwhalen at gmail.com "Vision without action is a day dream, Action without vision is a nightmare." -- Japanese proverb
On 6/30/11 10:08 AM, Joshua Whalen wrote:> I sent this yesterday, but I've seen no sign of it arriving on the list and certainly no responses. ANy help, please? This is kind of urgent. > > > > > Hiya all! > > I'm a new WINE user on OS X 10.6.7. > > I'm trying to install Quickbooks 2006 for Windows XP on WINE and all goes well UNTIL I try to launch the successfully installed app and get an error 3371 at launch. What that means is that Quickbooks can't find the authorization key. > > On further investigation, I find that the reason for this is that the authorization key should have been installed in > > C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Intuit\Entitlement Client v2 > > but wasn't because this directory doesn't exist. in Wine Files in my home directory. > > I assume there is a way to create it or fake it. I'd love to know what that way is. Anyone care to tell me? >One. See if there is an Intuit directory in your user home directory. If there is the process may be much easier than I will tell you to do below. Two. Use the terminal program type in [code] open $HOME/.wine [/code] You can then navigate to drive_c Click on and hold the control key and click on New Folder. Type in Documents and Settings. Continue through until you have created all of the folders in the directory structure above. The reason I pointed out one above, is that I have a program called e-Sword that normally stores information in the user's document and setting folder. Please advise if you need additional information.
SpawnHappyJake
2011-Jul-01 04:12 UTC
[Wine] Re: Help, please!!! was: Documents and Settings
Here's a quote from the AppDB:> I was able to get registered by using regedit and editing the QuickbooksRegistration/9.0 keys to match the keys exactly to the Windows machines (GroupNumber, QAMode, RegistrationNumber, VersionNumber).Have you tried copying these activation files over that you mentioned? You sound like you know a lot about it, so...have you tried copying the activation files over? What of the registry keys mentioned in the AppDB the above quote points at? If it turns out to not be that simple, then let me reuse one of my replies: http://pastebin.com/3zq1r9pF I ought to go in an edit it a little bit because since then I HAVE used WhatChanged and it outputs the changed stuff to a directory rather than giving you a list of what changed in a text file like RegShot does for registry changes. Another important thing to mention is that WhatChanged doesn't let you save a snapshot to a file, rather you must leave it running until you want to make the next shot to compare them. You can't load and compare two snapshot files like with RegShot. I would recommend taking a shot with BOTH RegShot and WhatChanged, THEN activate, then take another shot with BOTH RegShot and WhatChanged. People have made bash scripts to compare directories as well. As goose-chaseesque as it sounds, the method did get The Witcher 2 activated in WINE (http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=12248&highlight=), which turned out to be unnecessary because the owners released a patch that took the DRM off. It's okay to talk about DRM removal here when it's done by the owners of the game. Other than that, it's strictly forbidden. Every time someone opens a new thread asking how to remove DRM, a moderator swoops in and closes the thread, so don't do it. Example: http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=12613 What I am proposing is to MOVE activation from a virtual machine to WINE. NOT hack/bypass it. It still requires legal, normal activation in the virtual machine. Cheers, Jake