[gentoo-user] Sharing of wine drives between different users of same machine

[gentoo-user] Sharing of wine drives between different users of same machine

[Mark David Dumlao]

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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?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing of wine drives between different users of same machine

[Miika Linnapuomi]

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Sun, 3 Aug 2008 14:37:34 +0800
"Mark David Dumlao" <stuffinator@gmail.com> 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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