I could not find another thread that talked about this but all my searched pulled up manny manny results so I may have overlooked some. The problem I have is that I recently upgraded my ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 and the new version of wine (1.1.2) has broken my setup. I run a machine with multiple user (5) and to simplify my life all there Microsoft software they needed was installed under wine and they used linux to do everything else. Every user has the exact same software installed but some have there icons hidden and some not. Since everyone is basically the same everyone has the same .wine folder. It sits in the home directory and is sym-linked to each users account. I set up one wine system from my account and all the changes/additions are sen by everyone else. After doing the update everything is broken because the wine project implemented a rule that you have to own the wine folder that you are executing. But in my case no one owns that folder. I understand it's to keep people from running as root but that is not the case here it it's still causing a problem. Besides that fact that I think it's a fundamentally bad idea anyway I can't find a work around because wine is insisting now that it own the .wine folder. This is VERY frustrating because what has worked is now broken and there is no clear path to fix it. if anyone has any ideas please let me know.
