On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:00 AM, N. Sridhar <nsridhar22@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Austin English wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:31 AM, N. Sridhar <nsridhar22@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Thanks for your reply. I deleted the ./wine directory under home and > created it again by running winecfg. After creating the drives in > windows partition > > No, don't do this! > > > > nsridhar@NSIBM2:~> wine /windows/D/Program\ Files/lotus/notes/nlnotes.exe > > Bad! > Le sigh... > > $ rm -rf ~/.wine > $ winetricks vcrun2005 > $ wine lotus_notes_setup.exe # DO NOT RUN YOUR WINDOWS INSTALLED > VERSION, INSTALL IT FRESH IN WINE > > Then report back. > > > Thanks again for the prompt reply. I apologise for the delay in replying as > I had to arrange for the Lotus Notes Program setup disc. I followed the > instructions as given above. I tried initially to install lotus notes from > wine in the partition D, but, it gave errors and did not install. > > Later on I selected the c: drive and the Lotus Notes now works properly > wiht wine. I had to make the initial setup and configuration for the Lotus > Notes. However, the setting of only TCPIP for the network was not possible > from the menu of User-Preferences. I finally opened the notes.ini file and > changed the configuration to lookup only for TCPIP and not LAN0 or other > networks. > > However, I am at a disadvantage since I have local replicas of my database > in the /windows/D directory (which I am forced to use sometimes in our > office due to network rules). In the earlier 32 bit version of opensuse, I > was running the windows version directly from wine in opensuse and was > replicating/updating the mail database locally on the same file both from > windows and linux. Now I had to copy my id file, address book as well as the > local replica of my mail database to c:\Program Files\lotus\notes\data unde > home/nsridhar/.wine also. Would it be possible to replicate the same local > file both from windows as well as linux? > > Regards > > N. Sridhar > Please reply to the list, so others can help/be helped. Assuming you have write permissions to where the file is stored, you could try a symlink. However, NTFS support is just now starting to become fruitful in Linux, so you should be cautious.