> 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?

This isn't really a great solution, but setuid wine would fix the
permissions problem. 

But the real question is why are you trying to do this? You could
probably do something that would work built out of a web of
symlinks... A coworker and I did something with a similarly m$-centric
app that was designed to run off a network. Essentially each user had
basic configs in their home dir (which were pushed to all existing
user's homes and /etc/skel) and the main app was run off a mapped
drive (really a symlink in... I think it's like .wine/dosdevices but
it's been a while).

You could basically set up a "mapped drive" like "x:" thats a symlink
to a shared location. Then you install all software to that shared
location. Your temp files and everything would still be on "c:" (in
each user's .wine) but the binaries would all stay in the same
place. If the users understand not to save inside the .wine dirs, but
instead outside (use another mapped drive, or symlinks, or something)
then the .wine folders become small and interchangeable. It's not a
perfect solution but it's probably pretty close to what you're looking
for... 


 

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