Sun, 3 Aug 2008 14:37:34 +0800 "Mark David Dumlao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After an (in?)convenient crash of a particular operating system which > I have dual-booted with Gentoo for a while; I am going to reinstall > it. My main issue though, for that particular operating system is > that the shared c_drive of different wine users was shared there, and > it annoys me that certain games now need some reinstalling > (fortunately, the save files are in a safe place). > > Well since I'm going to go and do something a bit tedious anyway, I > might as well do it right. > > I was wondering what strategies you guys use for sharing wine drives > between different users. I have 3 kids using the same box for games; > wine was one of the main features of using that box. I have > previously done some of the following: > (1) Everyone's .wine -> c:\wine (ntfs drive) > which makes some sense, but the bad thing is that usernames are > preserved across users. > (2) Everyone's c_drive -> c:\wine (ntfs drive) > Which also makes some sense, but I wonder if registry issues that are > user specific point to the wrong places. > (3) Everyone's program files -> c:\wine (ntfs drive) > Which does solve the issue of saving space; but the problem is that > registry entries from installing programs don't get shared. > > What's the proper way to multi-seat wine to make it behave like a > multi-user Windows environment? Making the users 'sudo wine' to a specific user might work nicely, or setuid wine to always run as that user. Not really multi-user, and I haven't actually tried either so there might be issues... Miika
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