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Running a Windows-based server on your Linux machine!
I recently started playing with MainLobby
from Cinemar. It's a great program for my application: keeping track of a
BUNCH of DVD's! It allows me to have multiple DVD megachangers and use a
computer or wi-fi pocket pc to select/play a movie. The pocket pc is
now the remote for the changers. Before, I had to unplug the changer I
didn't want responding to the remote!
Anyway, the point: MainLobby's server program is windows only!
Here I've got this marvelous Linux
box running 24/7, and now I have to run a windows box 24/7 as well?
A little WINE and my problem goes away! No, I don't mean
drinking, or complaining.
Wine is an Open Source implementation of
the Windows API on top of X
and Unix.
It really works, I about fell over laughing when I got Internet Explorer
running on my Xfree86 desktop.
Here is Cinemar's
MainLobby Server (for windows) running on my Magnia. If you can follow
this: The MainLobby Server
is running through Wine (configured with Wine
Tools) in a VNC Server session on the Xfree86
desktop of a Linux box and being controlled/viewed through the Webmin
VNC client module
with Internet Explorer running on a windows pc... and it works fine!
If you feel a burning need to duplicate this technological terror, let
me know. I will post a step-by-step install procedure and the RPM list.
Remember: Questions
can be posted in the FORUM section !
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