The statement " Windows applications are not designed for simultaneous use by different users (think about it - you simply can't do that on a Windows PC)" is wrong. You don't expect an install of Microsoft Office per every existing user on a Windows PC, do you ? You can also open multiple instances of Microsoft Word with 2 or more users logged on at the same time. Kind regards, Sylvain Petreolle ----- Message d'origine ---- > De : Martin Gregorie <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > À : wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx > Envoyé le : Ven 5 novembre 2010, 17h 31min 27s > Objet : Re: How do I get my wine applications to carry over users? > > On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 11:07 -0500, tehpwnerer1918 wrote: > > I work in education, and we are experimenting with Ubuntu 10.10 in a > > small lab. I have installed wine and Microsoft Office as root, but > > when I log out and in as a network user it is not there. Is it > > possible to get it to carry over from user to user? Thanks in advance. > > > Never, ever install Windows applications as root. > > Its asking for trouble just as much as running Windows applications with > Administrator privileges is. > > Windows applications are not designed for simultaneous use by different > users (think about it - you simply can't do that on a Windows PC), so > anything that gives remote Linux users simultaneous access to a single > copy of a Windows app is likely to cause the app to misbehave. > > The best you can do is to install MS Office in a number of regular Linux > users and arrange things so each user can only be logged into by one > person at a time. Running Wine apps through a shell script that enforces > this one-at-a-time rule is fairly easy to do. > > > Martin > > > >
