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 1KPXDs-0006aY-A9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:37:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 243FEE030C; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 06:37:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0778E030C for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 06:37:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7264E6740E for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 06:37:41 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.499 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.499 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.099, BAYES_00=-2.599, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id OXHeksUVdf1S for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 06:37:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.177]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34851673D4 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 06:37:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v33so1014705wah.24 for ; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:37:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:mime-version:content-type:x-google-sender-auth; bh=pjE0xLCAABJXEBtGrfzT7XHGaFf4pM6oqb+kRX8sLw8=; b=ntVNW0AYgIbgNRFL2XZFN2BisPzP2BKlCRX9MgW0BInKGnOrERBznYKXMNiCBbGBlt F5QbKTZGm6BtaleYVFiwtccYmcnhmlEEm2Xpmvd05vcN5XEtWxrObCCh45Q9ElVaXqLH uOybEPLV+yjh13URcbOmTvszPiCCXk/hIEMH4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type :x-google-sender-auth; b=pQNNUlpgK58JnWXl9IQYMD9v4//7dtQOrgyTZDXDCXZvTgTKMV6HWXSLAhrLtUlSaR +yk0J+dZusGISrhhyGRMHhAbUfGWXoZRcuB/NJlb/IX+pUsW/GckrCXMMa058T/Flymy s/LMyK9MNNwBsCfs4hCuXvKDE9VefFhhGGdK8= Received: by 10.114.168.15 with SMTP id q15mr13373051wae.167.1217745454807; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:37:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.46.14 with HTTP; Sat, 2 Aug 2008 23:37:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6e2210230808022337j27b564e0n5cc54072cf323665@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 14:37:34 +0800 From: "Mark David Dumlao" Sender: madumlao@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Sharing of wine drives between different users of same machine 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/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_17753_28771821.1217745454792" X-Google-Sender-Auth: 89fa9802e8499936 X-Archives-Salt: 8b5b3b8f-55b4-4456-837a-1c6cf61d08c2 X-Archives-Hash: b3e487569867a5a94b5a915d0927e3d7 ------=_Part_17753_28771821.1217745454792 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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? ------=_Part_17753_28771821.1217745454792 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline
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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