On November 9, 2004 08:05 am, Christian Convey wrote: > Hey guys, > > I have two Linux computers. I'd like to make it so that regardless of which > Linux computer I'm sitting at, I can fire up Quicken (via Wine). > Specifically, I want to access the same set of Quicken data files > regardless of which Linux computer I'm sitting at. (I can be > self-disciplined to only have Wine running on one computer at a time.) > > Does Wine support this? If so, would the way to do this just be... > 1) Create an SMB share to contain the Wine fake disks. and other shared information > > 2) Copy the same ~/.wine directory tree to every home directory on every > computer I want. Why not symlink rather than copying? Also be aware of the WINEPREFIX environmental variable which allows your .wine to be somewhere else. > > 3) Ensure that the drives defined in ~/.wine/dosdevices' all point to the > SMB share. I.e.: Suppose host 'mtdew' is hosting the fake wine c: drive. > The fake drive is exported via the SMB share name > //mtdew/wine_c. That directory appears in mtdew's local > filesystem at the path /var/fileshares/wine_c/ > > Further suppose that my other host, 'jolt', imports that > SMB share to have a local path of '/net/mtdew/wine_c' > > Then on the host 'mtdew', I can/should can have the > symlink ~/.wine/dosdevices/c: -> /var/fileshares/wine_c/ > > And on the host 'jolt', I can/should have the symlink > ~/.wine/dosdevices/c: -> /net/mtdew/wine_c > > Does this sound like the best way to accomplish my goal? Any suggestions > for other approaches? Sounds reasonable. I'd probably use more linking rather than copying, so that the system.reg in particular stays coordinated. > > Thanks, > Christian > > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users -- Bill Medland mailto:billmedland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://webhome.idirect.com/~kbmed _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
