[Wine] All users

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Tue Sep 22 21:09:22 CDT 2009


doh123 wrote:
> I dunno about Linux.. but on Macs, there is a shared directory where you can put stuff for all users, including Wine and Wine applications.... I not only hae my Wine apps available to other users, but i can simply copy them to any Mac that doesnt even have Wine installed, and run them...
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> I'd assume you could make a wide open directory that everyone had access to where you put the programs and wine... with bash script launchers for each program that set the users paths and everything right to use Wine and launch the software.
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The problem is that Wine does not imitate the individual users so that
if I created several users on my system and allowed remote access it is
possible for file corruption to occur.  This was a major problem on the
OpenOffice.org project with MacOSX based file locking.

James McKenzie




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