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Sun, 3 Aug 2008 14:37:34 +0800 |
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"Mark David Dumlao" <stuffinator@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> After an (in?)convenient crash of a particular operating system which |
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> I have dual-booted with Gentoo for a while; I am going to reinstall |
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> it. My main issue though, for that particular operating system is |
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> that the shared c_drive of different wine users was shared there, and |
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> it annoys me that certain games now need some reinstalling |
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> (fortunately, the save files are in a safe place). |
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> Well since I'm going to go and do something a bit tedious anyway, I |
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> might as well do it right. |
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> I was wondering what strategies you guys use for sharing wine drives |
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> between different users. I have 3 kids using the same box for games; |
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> wine was one of the main features of using that box. I have |
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> previously done some of the following: |
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> (1) Everyone's .wine -> c:\wine (ntfs drive) |
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> which makes some sense, but the bad thing is that usernames are |
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> preserved across users. |
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> (2) Everyone's c_drive -> c:\wine (ntfs drive) |
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> Which also makes some sense, but I wonder if registry issues that are |
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> user specific point to the wrong places. |
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> (3) Everyone's program files -> c:\wine (ntfs drive) |
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> Which does solve the issue of saving space; but the problem is that |
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> registry entries from installing programs don't get shared. |
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> What's the proper way to multi-seat wine to make it behave like a |
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> multi-user Windows environment? |
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Making the users 'sudo wine' to a specific user might work nicely, or |
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setuid wine to always run as that user. Not really multi-user, and |
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I haven't actually tried either so there might be issues... |
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Miika |