[Wine] Re: multi user setup for Windows software

Emmanuel Charpentier charpent at bacbuc.dyndns.org
Mon Oct 31 14:19:59 CST 2005


Markus Winhard wrote:
> I would like to set up wine for a terminal server machine. I.e. there 
> are several users logged on this machine and running applications 
> at the same time.
> 
> Most of them are even running the same applications (MS Word and 
> a custom windows software that hosts IE6 and several ActiveX controls).
> 
> 
> AFAIK I have to install IE6 and Word for every user. If there's an 
> update to one of the used components I have to install this update 
> for every user again.
> 
> That's a bunch of tedious and cost intensive work. So I'd like to 
> install software only once for all users (like I can do on a windows 
> terminal server).
> 
> Is there a way?

Look at 
http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/wineusr-guide/using-regedit#AEN361 : it 
shoud make your day (or at least a couple of hours...). I didn't try it 
yet, but might very soon ...

HTH,

					Emmanuel Charpentier




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