Thanks for your reply. That is what I did copied the
win directory to another user's $HOME.
when I run another session as a different user I get
Cannot start up another DOS/Windows session because the maximum
number of DOS/Windows users (1) are currently using the system.
Richard Bass wrote:
> Steve Simeonidis wrote:
> >
> > Can you get multiple sessions running?
> >
> > How?
> >
> > Thanks
>
> With the current beta, multiple sessions can run, but you have
> to have separate installations of windows for each. Under normal
> circumstances this would be with each user having their own
> windows installation (in the win subdirectory).
>
> If you thought you could run multiple windows sessions out of
> the same windows installation, unfortunately that doesn't work.
> Windows 9x would get very confused if more than one copy of
> the base OS were updating the same registry at the same time!
>
> Now, you don't really have to go through separate installs if
> you want multiple users to have windows. Instead, you
> can copy the "win" subdirectory to a different user's
> $HOME and make sure he/she owns all the new copies. Then
> you also need to copy the .merge/win.cfw to the other user's
> .merge directory as well. Of course, if you are going to
> have installed and run more than one copy of Windows you are
> required to have a separate Microsoft Windows license for
> each according to the MS EULA.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Richard <rwb>
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