Hello, The network administrators for the school I work for have recent left and also left the network in a rather large mess. There are files such as pictures being stored in random folders on random computers all around the network leaving valuable data vulnerable. I'm hoping to move over from the older windows system to a new linux based thin client configuration with ltsp. So far I am using SUSE 9.1 to test and everything runs great as far as this is concerned. The problem runs in that the school requires a certain piece of software that they use to manage their business processes (attendance, billing, etc). I've been playing with WINE and have come very close to getting the system to work. The software has been running on a Windows 95 computer quite well and so I copied over the application directory and then through a lot of trial and error I settled on what I believe to be the right DLLs that were necessary from the Windows\System32 directory from one of our Windows 95 computers. The native DLLs that I'm trying to use are: msvbvm60.dll, oleaut32.dll, msvcrt20.dll, rpcrt4.dll, netapi.dll, netbios.dll, oleaut32.dll, rpcrt4.dll, ole32.dll, netapi32.dll, msvcrt20.dll. The wine version is 20040213 and was included with my distribution. This is an error I get when running the notepad that is included with wine. Notepad will start and seems to run perfectly though. This is what I get from having all of the above files in the folder: suse:~/.wine/fake_windows/ProCare # wine PRO32.exe Could not stat /media/floppy (No such file or directory), ignoring drive A: Could not stat /media/cdrom (No such file or directory), ignoring drive M: err:seh:setup_exception stack overflow 96 bytes in thread 0015 eip 40076a15 esp 40590fa0 stack 0x40590000-0x40690000 suse:~/.wine/fake_windows/ProCare # If I remove the netapi.dll, the netbios.dll, and the netapi32.dll files I will get this: suse:~/.wine/fake_windows/ProCare # rm NET NETAPI.DLL NETAPI32.DLL NETBIOS.DLL suse:~/.wine/fake_windows/ProCare # rm NET* -f suse:~/.wine/fake_windows/ProCare # ls . BAKPR.INI MSVBVM60.DLL PRO32.EXE PROPR.INI PRO_PR32.EXE RDini index.html.1 .. CHECK32.EXE MSVCRT20.DLL PROAP.INI PRO_AP32.EXE PocketPC REPAIR32.EXE msvcrt.dll BAKAP.INI Help OLE32.DLL PROAR.INI PRO_AR32.EXE ProCare.INI RPCRT4.DLL BAKAR.INI Install OLEAUT32.DLL PROCBT32.EXE PRO_IR32.EXE ProCare.INI~ VISDATA.EXE suse:~/.wine/fake_windows/ProCare # wine PRO32.exe Could not stat /media/floppy (No such file or directory), ignoring drive A: Could not stat /media/cdrom (No such file or directory), ignoring drive M: fixme:file:DeviceIoControl Unimplemented control 256 for VxD device NWLINK suse:~/.wine/fake_windows/ProCare # >From some extensive google searches on this topic I came to the understanding that the NWLINK requirement seems to be some soft of driver (nwlink.vxd). Perhaps it seems from Novell, their Netware or Netmonitor client(I'm guessing?). The software I'm using is extremely straight forward and was written in Visual Basic, it uses an access database backend and thats about it. It needs absolutely nothing special and for sure no network access. Is there some way to bypass this? Last is my configuration for the dlls in wine: [DllOverrides] ; some dlls you may want to change "ntdll" = "builtin" "oleaut32" = "builtin, native" "ole32" = "native" "comdlg32" = "builtin, native" "shell32" = "builtin, native" "shfolder" = "builtin, native" "shlwapi" = "native, builtin" "shdocvw" = "builtin, native" "system" = "builtin" "advapi32" = "native" "msvcrt" = "native, builtin" "mciavi.drv" = "native, builtin" "mcianim.drv" = "native, builtin" "msi" = "native, builtin" "gdi" = "builtin" "gdi32" = "builtin" "user" = "builtin" "user32" = "builtin" "*" = "builtin, native" Hopefully I included everything necessary. This solution with WINE will really save the school I work for a LOT of money in upgrading and administration costs!!! Please, any and all help will be appreciated. Thank you, Mitchel _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
