My guess is that he's trying to run a Windows service inside WINE (duh!) but thinking about it the Windows way. I don't think he knows how to do that, Dan, or else he could've made a random user or something that will start such service in a dummy X server and be happy with it. On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Dan Kegel <dank@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:17 PM, MichaelZ <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > OK, but I need to run a service on Linux machine even without any Wine > > application running. Because the service allows client machine to access > > it from different machines. > > That should be fine. > > > > If this feature is by design, I think this should be changed as in my case I only want the service running on Linux machine. > > What feature are you talking about? > > You should be able to run the service as a normal user even > when nobody is logged in. You may need to provide a > dummy X server to make Wine happy, as it seems to > have trouble running without X these days (grrr). > > You might have to tell us a bit more about your service > for us to advise you correctly... > - Dan > >
