[Wine] Re : How do I get my wine applications to carry over users?

[Sylvain Petreolle]

The statement " Windows  applications are not designed for simultaneous use by 
different
 users (think  about it - you simply can't do that on a Windows PC)" is wrong.
You don't expect an install of Microsoft Office per every existing user on a 
Windows PC, do you ?
You can also open multiple instances of Microsoft Word with 2 or more users 
logged on at the same time.

Kind regards,
Sylvain Petreolle



----- Message d'origine ----
> De : Martin Gregorie <martin at gregorie.org>
> À : wine-users at winehq.org
> Envoyé le : Ven 5 novembre 2010, 17h 31min 27s
> Objet : Re: [Wine] How do I get my wine applications to carry over users?
> 
> On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 11:07 -0500, tehpwnerer1918 wrote:
> > I work in  education, and we are experimenting with Ubuntu 10.10 in a
> > small lab. I  have installed wine and Microsoft Office as root, but
> > when I log out and  in as a network user it is not there. Is it
> > possible to get it to carry  over from user to user? Thanks in advance.
> > 
> Never, ever install  Windows applications as root.
> 
> Its asking for trouble just as much as  running Windows applications with
> Administrator privileges is.
> 
> Windows  applications are not designed for simultaneous use by different
> users (think  about it - you simply can't do that on a Windows PC), so
> anything that gives  remote Linux users simultaneous access to a single
> copy of a Windows app is  likely to cause the app to misbehave.
> 
> The best you can do is to install  MS Office in a number of regular Linux
> users and arrange things so each user  can only be logged into by one
> person at a time. Running Wine apps through a  shell script that enforces
> this one-at-a-time rule is fairly easy to  do.
> 
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> 
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