I am having some trouble to some Office software with wine. The Program itself starts without problems and runs quite fine. But unfortunatly I am not able to connect to our local Datebase. My Ubuntu Linux itself doesnt seem to have any problems in connecting to the server (but I admit that I don't know how to check if I can access the port 5143 that is used to connect to the database.). (edit: i did a portscan with ubuntu and it says 5143 is open)
The faq told me that I should use hostname -i to check if it say 127.0.x.x and it does so i changed /etc/hosts and entered my local IP there. I tried both my ethnernet adresses (cable / wireless) but it didn't helped. (when I type in hostname -i it says my local IP though)
My Office Software has a dialog to search the network for the server but if I hit that button it just says "My Network Places" but there is nothing to browse, so I am quite sure that I don't have any netork conection at all.
When I open Configure Wine it says I am using Ver 1.0.1. Ubuntu hasn't offered me an update yet.
I am quite sure that the problem is easy to solve and I am just to blind to see whats wrong. I hope anyone can help me!
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:09 AM, NackteElfe <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
I am having some trouble to some Office software with wine. The Program itself starts without problems and runs quite fine. But unfortunatly I am not able to connect to our local Datebase. My Ubuntu Linux itself doesnt seem to have any problems in connecting to the server (but I admit that I don't know how to check if I can access the port 5143 that is used to connect to the database.).
The faq told me that I should use hostname -i to check if it say 127.0.x.x and it does so i changed /etc/hosts and entered my local IP there. I tried both my ethnernet adresses (cable / wireless) but it didn't helped. (when I type in hostname -i it says my local IP though)
My Office Software has a dialog to search the network for the server but if I hit that button it just says "My Network Places" but there is nothing to browse, so I am quite sure that I don't have any netork conection at all.
When I open Configure Wine it says I am using Ver 1.0.1. Ubuntu hasn't offered me an update yet.
I am quite sure that the problem is easy to solve and I am just to blind to see whats wrong. I hope anyone can help me!
What software is this? What protocol does it use? Is there a firewall
in the way?
The software is called OrgaMax unfortunatly there is no english version availible. The German 30day Test Version kann be download here and is quite self explaining.
There is no firewall at work and I can boot the very same laptop I am using right now with windows instead of ubuntu and orgamax does work.
Is it possible that Ubuntu has a firewall working that I am not aware of (at the other hand i can even use filesharing programs like emule in wine without any problems.)
I am not quite sure how to figure out which protocols are used. You mean by the software? Or what kind the database is?
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:35 AM, NackteElfe <[email protected]> wrote:
The software is called OrgaMax unfortunatly there is no english version availible. The German 30day Test Version kann be download here (http://www.orgamax.de/demo/?no_cache=1) and is quite self explaining.
There is no firewall at work and I can boot the very same laptop I am using right now with windows instead of ubuntu and orgamax does work.
Is it possible that Ubuntu has a firewall working that I am not aware of (at the other hand i can even use filesharing programs like emule in wine without any problems.)
I am not quite sure how to figure out which protocols are used. You mean by the software? Or what kind the database is?
I meant what type of protocol is used by the software? What kind of
database does it use? Is there any terminal output?
well unfortunal I really don't know that. How can if figure that out?
OrgaMax uses a SQL Database. The client tries to connect to the firebird sql server on an windows machine.
Might try native odbc, but that's just a guess.
How can I do that? Unfortuantly I really don't have any clue about that.
austin987 wrote:
Wine doesnt give me any error messages or any output. Or is it necessary to turn terminal messages on in some way?
If you're running in terminal, it should by default, unless you've got
WINEDEBUG=-all set.
I didnt know that it is possible to run it in terminal. Do I start it by "wine <name of program>"?
but the terminal output just says: " fixmeFileIconInit (true)
fixme:advapi:GetSecurityInfo stub!"
Nothing more.
BTW: Ich have to tell you: Thanks a lot for the help so far! The Software doesnt run yet but you helped me learn a lot more than I was able to be reading wikis and faqs...
edit: last night an update for our office software came out... I deinstalled the old version and installed the new one and for some reason it works now.... Thanks a lot for your help... There are still some problems but of course first i'll try to figure them out myself
Well i really don't know, because I had the excisting database I could use.
But I guess you could copy the existing database to another computer and run a firebird sql on that machine. Then you just have to change the orgamax.ini for the different path.
if you just want to check out the software you can use the "einzelplatz" version - that saves the database on your local computer.
FileIconInit (true)
