I'm looking for ways to install wine on a multi-user box so that hundreds of users can share the same base registry.
Username substitution would help in the registry processing. So when a flag is set for installing a global setting, registry keys written which include the username would instead put something like $username into the key.
Having an include directory could also be useful so that all the individual files inside the directory would be included. It would be usefull to disqualify files ending with a ~ character such as the Emacs program creates when creating temporary backups of the file you are editing.
So I'm looking to eliminate having seperate (full) fake windows directories for every user.
Are these concerns already addressed or dealt with in some other way?
-Joe Baker
Hi,
I'm looking for ways to install wine on a multi-user box so that hundreds of users can share the same base registry.
Username substitution would help in the registry processing. So when a flag is set for installing a global setting, registry keys written which include the username would instead put something like $username into the key.
I've found a way to do so, but I have only a small home computer and not hundrets of users.
I've put the C-Drive in /opt/windows, owned by root:root and writeable only by root. system.reg, dosdevices, userdef.reg and the config file are in /etc/wine. In the home directories, there's a .wine directory with individual user.reg directories and soft links to the files in /etc/wine. This way only root can install software and the users can't modify HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE(They can temporarily for themselves, but it won't be stored and the others are not affected. Furthermore I copy the applnk entries to a system wide directory(/usr/share/applnk/wine) and modify them manually so every user can see them in his start menu.
The major problem I have are those Apps which require full access to their install directories and installers which write required application settings to HKEY_CURRENT_USER. So basically the same problems as under Windows :-( Another thing is that even new applications do not really realize that I'm using the Administrator account if I am root, so that's why they install everything to HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
My hack works for a small system like mine, but I doubt it's possible for hundrets of users.
Stefan Dösinger
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Stefan Dösinger