benign wrote: > So I am in the wrong path with setting RAS to native... Correct, most programs don't need RAS, they happily work over the network. You can safely ignore all RAS errors. benign wrote: > also, I noticed that https sites don't work in ie6 which may be related to this. That's probably related to http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16831 benign wrote: > System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly 'MySql.Data, Version=6.1.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=c5687fc88969c44d' or one of its dependencies. Exception from HRESULT: 0x8009001D I think that's your real problem. Have you installed MySQL client libraries (not copied, but installed)? Try with the fresh wineprefix. Install required version of .net, MySQL client, then your program. Don't install IE or set any DLLs to native.