[Wine] H & R Block At Home does not load

[Ken Stephens]

The DVD starts and the flash screen comes up.  It sits for a while, then 
closes abnormally:
Fedora 16 with the following installed:
Jan 30 20:45:28 atlas yum[11575]: Updated: wine-core-1.3.37-1.fc16.i686
Jan 30 20:45:29 atlas yum[11575]: Updated: wine-common-1.3.37-1.fc16.noarch
Jan 30 20:45:29 atlas yum[11575]: Updated: 
wine-courier-fonts-1.3.37-1.fc16.noarch
Jan 30 20:45:30 atlas yum[11575]: Updated: 
wine-symbol-fonts-1.3.37-1.fc16.noarch
Jan 30 20:45:30 atlas yum[11575]: Updated: 
wine-ms-sans-serif-fonts-1.3.37-1.fc16.noarch
Jan 30 20:45:30 atlas yum[11575]: Updated: 
wine-marlett-fonts-1.3.37-1.fc16.noarch
Jan 30 20:45:33 atlas yum[11575]: Updated: 
wine-small-fonts-1.3.37-1.fc16.noarch
Jan 30 20:45:34 atlas yum[11575]: Updated: 
wine-system-fonts-1.3.37-1.fc16.noarch
Jan 30 20:45:35 atlas yum[11575]: Updated: 
wine-tahoma-fonts-1.3.37-1.fc16.noarch
Jan 30 20:47:05 atlas yum[11575]: Updated: wine-systemd-1.3.37-1.fc16.noarch
Jan 30 20:47:06 atlas yum[11575]: Updated: wine-desktop-1.3.37-1.fc16.noarch
Jan 30 20:47:06 atlas yum[11575]: Updated: wine-fonts-1.3.37-1.fc16.noarch
Jan 30 20:47:21 atlas yum[11575]: Updated: wine-alsa-1.3.37-1.fc16.i686
Jan 30 20:47:21 atlas yum[11575]: Updated: 
wine-pulseaudio-1.3.37-1.fc16.i686
Jan 30 20:47:21 atlas yum[11575]: Updated: wine-openal-1.3.37-1.fc16.i686
Jan 30 20:47:22 atlas yum[11575]: Updated: wine-twain-1.3.37-1.fc16.i686
Jan 30 20:47:22 atlas yum[11575]: Updated: wine-ldap-1.3.37-1.fc16.i686
Jan 30 20:47:23 atlas yum[11575]: Updated: wine-wow-1.3.37-1.fc16.i686
Jan 30 20:47:23 atlas yum[11575]: Updated: wine-capi-1.3.37-1.fc16.i686
Jan 30 20:47:23 atlas yum[11575]: Updated: wine-cms-1.3.37-1.fc16.i686
Jan 30 20:47:24 atlas yum[11575]: Updated: wine-1.3.37-1.fc16.i686

[xxxxxxxx at atlas ~]$ wine /media/HRBlock2011/
assets/     installers/ pages/      tcauto.exe  xml/
[xxxxxxxx at atlas ~]$ wine /media/HRBlock2011/tcauto.exe
fixme:dwmapi:DwmIsCompositionEnabled 0x6abae480
fixme:iphlpapi:NotifyAddrChange (Handle 0x10be8cc, overlapped 
0x10be8b0): stub
wine: configuration in '/home/xxxxxxxxx/.wine' has been updated.
[xxxxxxxx at atlas ~]$ wine /media/HRBlock2011/tcauto.exe
err:winediag:SECUR32_initNTLMSP ntlm_auth was not found or is outdated. 
Make sure that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path. Usually, you can 
find it in the winbind package of your distribution.
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} 
not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} 
not registered
err:ole:create_server class {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} not 
registered
fixme:ole:CoGetClassObject CLSCTX_REMOTE_SERVER not supported
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object 
{96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} could be created for context 0x17
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f70c,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:wininet:InternetLockRequestFile STUB
err:ntdll:RtlDeleteResource Deleting active MRSW lock (0x111bf4), expect 
failure
err:ntdll:RtlDeleteResource Deleting active MRSW lock (0x1124d4), expect 
failure

wine configured as Windows 7, Screen resolution 1024x768.

wine configured as Windows 2008 R2 does not display splash screen.

wine configured as Windows 2008 displays splash screen and nothing else.
[xxxxxxxx at atlas ~]$wine /media/HRBlock2011/tcauto.exe
err:winediag:SECUR32_initNTLMSP ntlm_auth was not found or is outdated. 
Make sure that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path. Usually, you can 
find it in the winbind package of your distribution.
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} 
not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} 
not registered
err:ole:create_server class {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} not 
registered
fixme:ole:CoGetClassObject CLSCTX_REMOTE_SERVER not supported
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object 
{96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} could be created for context 0x17
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f70c,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:wininet:InternetLockRequestFile STUB
fixme:wininet:CommitUrlCacheEntryInternal entry already in cache - don't 
know what to do!
[xxxxxxxx at atlas ~]$ err:ntdll:RtlDeleteResource Deleting active MRSW 
lock (0x111bfc), expect failure
err:ntdll:RtlDeleteResource Deleting active MRSW lock (0x112504), expect 
failure

Is this hopeless: trying to get tax software to work on open source 
operating system?

-- 
Ken Stephens, SV Aventura, Portland, OR