[Wine] [Fwd: Lotus Notes with wine in opensuse 64 bit]

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Thu Apr 17 11:47:31 CDT 2008


On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:00 AM, N. Sridhar <nsridhar22 at hotpop.com> wrote:
>
>  Austin English wrote:
>
>  On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:31 AM, N. Sridhar <nsridhar22 at hotpop.com> wrote:
>
>
>  Thanks for your reply. I deleted the ./wine directory under home and
>  created it again by running winecfg. After creating the drives in
>  windows partition
>
>  No, don't do this!
>
>
>
>  nsridhar at NSIBM2:~> wine /windows/D/Program\ Files/lotus/notes/nlnotes.exe
>
>  Bad!
> Le sigh...
>
> $ rm -rf ~/.wine
> $ winetricks vcrun2005
> $ wine lotus_notes_setup.exe # DO NOT RUN YOUR WINDOWS INSTALLED
> VERSION, INSTALL IT FRESH IN WINE
>
> Then report back.
>
>
>  Thanks again for the prompt reply. I apologise for the delay in replying as
> I had to arrange for the Lotus Notes Program setup disc. I followed the
> instructions as given above.  I tried initially to install lotus notes from
> wine in the partition D, but, it gave errors and did not install.
>
>  Later on I selected the c: drive and the Lotus Notes now works properly
> wiht wine. I had to make the initial setup and configuration for the Lotus
> Notes.  However, the setting of only TCPIP for the network was not possible
> from the menu of User-Preferences. I finally opened the notes.ini file and
> changed the configuration to lookup only for TCPIP and not LAN0 or other
> networks.
>
>  However, I am at a disadvantage since I have local replicas of my database
> in the /windows/D directory (which I am forced to use sometimes in our
> office due to network rules). In the earlier 32 bit version of opensuse, I
> was running the windows version directly from wine in opensuse and was
> replicating/updating the mail database locally on the same file both from
> windows and linux. Now I had to copy my id file, address book as well as the
> local replica of my mail database to c:\Program Files\lotus\notes\data unde
> home/nsridhar/.wine also. Would it be possible to replicate the same local
> file both from windows as well as linux?
>
>  Regards
>
>  N. Sridhar
>

Please reply to the list, so others can help/be helped.

Assuming you have write permissions to where the file is stored, you
could try a symlink. However, NTFS support is just now starting to
become fruitful in Linux, so you should be cautious.



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