From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KQ529-0007WC-N0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:43:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5FBDDE046F; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 18:43:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from firefly.eukhost.com (firefly.eukhost.com [91.186.0.2]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 216BEE046F for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 18:43:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 87-194-182-221.bethere.co.uk ([87.194.182.221]:59006 helo=pli ident=aoU69) by firefly.eukhost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KQ51T-000127-L6 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:43:11 +0100 Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 19:43:40 +0100 From: Miika Linnapuomi To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing of wine drives between different users of same machine Message-ID: <20080804194340.462b85c6@pli> In-Reply-To: <6e2210230808022337j27b564e0n5cc54072cf323665@mail.gmail.com> References: <6e2210230808022337j27b564e0n5cc54072cf323665@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.4.0 (GTK+ 2.12.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/LEx=UFvJncK+pI5RW=a.7FV"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - firefly.eukhost.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - jootamam.net X-Archives-Salt: 897e56e9-f40c-427a-b7b8-02281f7e19b0 X-Archives-Hash: 922e22590e369cf7ee2e2af979abf565 --Sig_/LEx=UFvJncK+pI5RW=a.7FV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sun, 3 Aug 2008 14:37:34 +0800 "Mark David Dumlao" 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). >=20 > Well since I'm going to go and do something a bit tedious anyway, I > might as well do it right. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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 --Sig_/LEx=UFvJncK+pI5RW=a.7FV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkiXTeEACgkQXquc4W4AbS/JawCfcaUOCQT/00Zu3LpkisJngxT8 Be4AoIKdertAEpWl/CvC59PUSOdc2eHW =jhwl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/LEx=UFvJncK+pI5RW=a.7FV--