wine users - Sep 2011 - Running wine as a server

Hello, I'm new to this forum, but have been using wine for a long time.

Is there a way of running wine as a server, so that many linux users could run
instances of the same application without the need of running several instances
of wine?

My scenario is:

I've got a linux machine working as a server for 14 thin clients. Each
client runs (as different users, via ssh -X -C) a windows application through
wine. It's working rather well, except that the application takes a long
time to start. I understand that this happens because each time a client starts
the application, a new instance of wineserver is started, and as soon as the
client disconnects, this wineserver goes down. I've thinked about using the
"-p" option to start wineserver, but I'd need to start 14
wineservers (one for each user), which would blow up my server (actually, only 3
clients are allowed to connect simultaneously, so running 14 wineservers  dry
out all my memory).

What I would like is: all my instances of my application connecting to a single
wineserver, and each instance running as a different user.

Is that possible?

Thanks, guys!

thomasphansen wrote:
> Is there a way of running wine as a server, so that many linux users could
run instances of the same application without the need of running several
instances of wine?
No, this is not currently possible. Wine is a single user application. It does
not support sharing of the same instance by multiple users. Let alone multiple
simultaneous users.

vitamin wrote:
> 
> thomasphansen wrote:
> > Is there a way of running wine as a server, so that many linux users
could run instances of the same application without the need of running several
instances of wine?
> 
> No, this is not currently possible. Wine is a single user application. It
does not support sharing of the same instance by multiple users. Let alone
multiple simultaneous users.
Ok, Thank you!