On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Evan Ingram wrote: > hi all > > i need to install microsoft office onto an ltsp ubuntu 10.04 > installation. has anyone done this before? > > i need a "1 install for all users" kind of wine environment, as the > standard is for each user to have their own .wine profile directory with > their own software. i figured i could just move .wine into a shared > directory, and then create symlinks in every users home dir. > > something seems to have gone amiss though. i set the group ownership of > my shared .wine to users, and made sure all my users are part of the > "users" group. set 775 on the whole shared .wine directory, and created > the symlink in a users directory to .wine. > > if i goto applications > wine > browse c: drive, it shows me the > contents of the shared .wine directory. but if i actually try and run > anything i just get the little timer spinning around. i tried running > from command line and it tells me "wine: /home/user/.wine is not owned > by you" > > sure enough if i set ownership on it all to the logged in user it works. > but thats no good when i need it for all users. > > any ideas?
sounds interestingly... however, maybe a better solution were if you would uncompress the .wine dir into user's dir after each login... (maybe the group permission is not enough for wine: it says "not owned by you", not that "permission denied"...) I am not sure of it... it's only a guess. Zsolt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization is moving to the mainstream and overtaking non-virtualized environment for deploying applications. Does it make network security easier or more difficult to achieve? Read this whitepaper to separate the two and get a better understanding. http://p.sf.net/sfu/hp-phase2-d2d _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
