[Wine]Re: Am I attempting the impossible?

[Mike Hearn]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:56:49 +1100, jurgen wrote:
> - Run MS Access 97 and MYOB

I don't know many people using Access, possibly it doesn't work at all.
Try making it work with CrossOver or WineHQ on Linux first.

> - Under FreeBSD 5.3

Risky. FreeBSD is broken is misc ways which mean Wine is less reliable
there (and a bunch of stuff isn't implemented for that platform).

> - With multiple simultaneous users (X Terminals)

To do that you need to have a separate user account for each display,
because you can't have 1 wineserver with many Win32 processes on different
displays.

> How well does Wine work in a terminal server environment? Will I need
> separate installs in each user's home directories, or will some clever
> symlinks save the day? How do native Windows 98SE DLLs like being
> accessed simultaneously? Am I nuts for even trying?

We (CodeWeavers) sell a terminal server solution which you may want to
investigate.

thanks -mike