Hi,<br>
<br>
Thanks everyone for your help so far, but it's still not going anywhere.<br>
<br>
I found the Workgroup editor thing: c:\windows\system\wrkgadm.exe and
ran it, set up a workgroup. However, when it went to save the file, I
got a useful Microsoft error: "An error has occurred at changing
workgroup database". The file was not created. It's not a permissions
error, because I can create all kinds of files in that directory. I
even tried saving the file someplace else, even in the H: (~jurgen)
directory, but I always get the same error. Wine doesn't report
anything at all on the command line.<br>
<br>
Taking a different angle, using a system.mda from another computer,
wrkgadm.exe seems to accept it, but running Access gives me an out of
memory error.<br>
<br>
What else can I try? I have a legal copy of Win98SE here, and I'm not
averse to running "real" Microsoft DLLs if it will get Access working.<br><br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
........jurgen<br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 05/05/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">J�rg Schaible</b> <<a href="mailto:joerg.schaible@gmx.de">joerg.schaible@gmx.de</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
jurgen wrote:<br><br>> Hi all,<br>><br>> I'm having trouble getting Access 97 working with Wine 20041019. Word and<br>> Excel work just fine, as far as I've used them, but Access simply refuses<br>> to start. I've installed off an original installer CD through the
<br>> WineTools ( 2.11jo) utility. I customised the install, removing everything<br>> except for the basic application files for Word, Excel and Access. I've<br>> also installed all of the Base Setup and all of the Windows System
<br>> Software from WineTools.<br>><br>> During install, it complains about not being able to update the workgroup<br>> database, but the install completes fine anyway. When I navigate to<br>> Access's folder and type "wine
MSACCESS.EXE", the splash screen comes up<br>> just fine, then a second later, I get an error dialogue box:<br>><br>> Microsoft Access couldn't find the file "C:\windows\system\system.mdw".<br>> This file is required for startup.
<br>><br>> Doing a bit of reasearch, I learnt that this file has something to do with<br>> Access's workgroup (tee hee) functions. I tried touching the file and<br>> setting it to 777, also tried copying system.mdw
from a "real" Windows<br>> machine, but both of these solutions ends up with an out of memory<br>> dialogue on launch. It's progress though, I got a *different* error. :-)<br><br>IIRC there is a utility installed in the access directory to switch and
<br>create new workgroups. Other system.mda's won't work, since they are<br>created individually for your system at installation time. Try to run this<br>tool and create a new one and switch the access system to it.<br><br>
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