[K12OSN] OT- wine and user accounts

[Peter Hartmann]

So I take it you are generally running programs don't need to save any
settings in that student_wine folder?

thanks,
Peter

On 2/2/07, Martin Woolley <sysadmin at handsworth.bham.sch.uk> wrote:
> On Thursday 01 February 2007 20:03, rmcdaniel at indata.us wrote:
> > We are running WINE on our K12LTSP server so that we can serve up some
> > applications that only run on Windows.  When I install an application,
> > it only shows up for the user account where the installation took
> > place.  Is there a way to install an application under WINE that will
> > show up for all users?
>
> We achieve this by cheating.  On NFS we have a directory student_wine.  Each
> user has a symbolic link .wine in their home dir which points to the
> student_wine dir.  Any apps show up for any user, eg to run one application,
> the KDE menu item contains
> Exec=wine /home/MAUD/ooo/student_wine/drive_c/Program\\
> Files/Focus-ES/KS3Physics/KS3P.exe
>
> --
> Regards
> Martin Woolley
> ICT Support
> Handsworth Grammar School
> Isis Astarte Diana Hecate Demeter Kali Inanna
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