Very interesting, especially the part with the symlinks is exactly what 
is important here. We are using crossover because I didn't have the time 
to dive so deeply into the world of wine tweaking :-) And crossover is 
doing it this way.

Regards

Rolf


Am 04.10.2010 16:48, schrieb Reiner Schmid:
>    Hello,
>
> a few years ago I used the informations from
>
> http://bootpolish.net/home_howto_installwineonltsp
>
> to use wine programs
>
> Reiner
>
>> hi all
>>
>> i need to install microsoft office onto an ltsp ubuntu 10.04
>> installation. has anyone done this before?
>>
>> i need a "1 install for all users" kind of wine environment, as the
>> standard is for each user to have their own .wine profile directory with
>> their own software. i figured i could just move .wine into a shared
>> directory, and then create symlinks in every users home dir.
>>
>> something seems to have gone amiss though. i set the group ownership of
>> my shared .wine to users, and made sure all my users are part of the
>> "users" group. set 775 on the whole shared .wine directory, and created
>> the symlink in a users directory to .wine.
>>
>> if i goto applications>   wine>   browse c: drive, it shows me the
>> contents of the shared .wine directory. but if i actually try and run
>> anything i just get the little timer spinning around. i tried running
>> from command line and it tells me "wine: /home/user/.wine is not owned
>> by you"
>>
>> sure enough if i set ownership on it all to the logged in user it works.
>> but thats no good when i need it for all users.
>>
>> any ideas?
>>
>>
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>
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