Wine.... without physical windows partition

Stinkah

Okey dokey,

I've got a Redhat 7.2 box running wine, which uses a fake windows partition, which is located in ~/wine. I have successfully, somehow, installed IE5 using wine, but I have a slight problem. After the ie5 setup is complete it requires a reboot *shakes fist @ windoze*. My question is.. how the hell am I gonna work around this. If I reboot my redhat box, which i have done in desperation, it makes no difference to my ~/wine dir.

Has anybody managed to work around this, or better still know how to fix this ****ty little problem.

And b4 yall jump on the band wagon. I may, in coming weeks have to use a web proxy that is running off an NT box which only accepts IE authentication, so rather than reinstalling, I would like to use this as a possible work around.

Any help mucho appreciado.

Cheers,

/micko

Typedef

The only specific nt authentication that I can think of is ntlm, which lynx can do and which I believe you can get some python utils to do, so I doubt that you actually have to get ie5 running in this instance
/or something\

Stinkah

Sorry man.. I'm just a little puzzled by this?

Lynx the unix browser yes... it can perform an authentication process known as ntlm? is that what it is ?

please forgive the ignorance, but I know not what you speak of.

Typedef

Yup if your nt proxy will only accept ie connections then that is almost definately because of ntlm.

One real easy way around this would be to simply stop the ntlm service or better yet uninstall it from the proxy, thus you should be able to get access to the net without ie, but if that nt box is a server it would run better faster and more securly with Red hat and ipchains in place, also without ridiculous protocols that attempt to force you to use one type of browsing software etc.
I myself may yet implement a totally linux network and a major upgrade for my primary server (old and slow as it is)?

Either way there is a utility written in python I think that claims to be able to act as a local proxy authenticating in place of other network apps for the ntlm... I don't know, even on my nt machine in work ntlm does not seem to like ftp connections be they passive or otherwise so if I were you and I thought I could get away with it I'd nuke nt and use red hat instead, failing that I'd try to remove ntlm from the setup altogether
/or something like that\
/tho this does simply my opinion, you may take it with however many grains of salt you wish\

flamegrill

It may actually only accept the User Agent that IE5 provides. This is easily overridden by using Opera and setting its User Agent to IE5

Regards,

Paul

Stinkah

One real easy way around this would be to simply stop the ntlm service or better yet uninstall it from the proxy, thus you should be able to get access to the net without ie, but if that nt box is a server it would run better faster and more securly with Red hat and ipchains in place,

Doh... I should really have mentioned that I'm but a droid in a coporate empire and haven't got access to this thorn in my side... In other words. I don'ts gets no access to disable this ntlm. If only it were that simple. I run RedHat anywho, and thus I don't wish to have to run IE4/5 on an nt4 box. I wanna stick with my redhat box emulating IE5 via wine. But the problem is that I have to get "windows" which is a fake directory on my ext3 file system, to "reboot" to pick up changes. It was suggested to me that there is a certain key in registry that controls the exe's waiting to be run on next boot and if i ran these manually it may work. But as of yet I've had no such look with this. I mean I'm sure ppl have tried this before with other programs other than IE and the setup has asked for a "reboot".. .but this ain't gonna work if I'm running solely RH and emulating a couple of windows apps.

Anyone got anymore clues ?

TroutMan

So so, the registry key in question:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

or maybe

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx

running what you see in there might help.

TroutMan

From: http://wine.codeweavers.com/fom-meta/cache/169.html


"A previous program installation was never completed..." error
This happens e.g. with IE 5.5.

It means that c:\windows\wininit.ini exists and is non-empty.
wininit.ini is used for post-setup installation of system files at the next reboot.

Currently Wine doesn't handle this correctly yet.
I just started the implementation, though,
so you might see this working soon.

Solution:
Just move that wininit.ini file away, or better:
do the file move/rename/delete actions as described in
that file first.

Typedef

Hmm yes if it is the user-agent field of your http headers then you might work around this problem using Opera on linux.
Else you could try running this python proggie on your local machine
http://www.geocities.com/rozmanov/ntlm/

Snaga

Typedef you beauty, ntlm does the trick perfectly, nice one

Ill tell stinkah to download it asap.

<edit> silly spelling</edit>