[Wine] Run service on Wine?

DARKGuy . dark.guy.2008 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 30 14:26:00 CDT 2008


My guess is that he's trying to run a Windows service inside WINE
(duh!) but thinking about it the Windows way. I don't think he knows
how to do that, Dan, or else he could've made a random user  or
something that will start such service in a dummy X server and be
happy with it.

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:17 PM, MichaelZ <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>  > OK, but I need to run a service on Linux machine even without any Wine
>  > application running. Because the service allows client machine to access
>  > it from different machines.
>
>  That should be fine.
>
>
>  > If this feature is by design, I think this should be changed as in my case I only want the service running on Linux machine.
>
>  What feature are you talking about?
>
>  You should be able to run the service as a normal user even
>  when nobody is logged in.  You may need to provide a
>  dummy X server to make Wine happy, as it seems to
>  have trouble running without X these days (grrr).
>
>  You might have to tell us a bit more about your service
>  for us to advise you correctly...
>  - Dan
>
>



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