Network App

[gldfshkpr]

Can Wine be used to access a network app? I'm getting an error from my network app

"Invalid or Missing Alias Name in Client VWGUI.INI
Alias (MailNodeName) Must Contain AlphNumerics ONLY
No Special Characters or Spaces
Press <Enter> to continue..."

Any suggestions appreciated. I"m new to Wine.

Edit: Here is my .INI file...

[SYSTEM]

;

; Visual World accesses two INI files to determine initial values to use

; during execution - the client VWGUI.INI and the global VWGUI.INI.

; The client VWGUI.INI file is found on the Windows directory of

; the client computer. It is the master and overrides all values found in

; the global VWGUI.INI found in the working directory on the server.

; The working directory can be confirmed by looking in the "properties"

; for the Visual World icon.

;

; Visual World users are encouraged to leave as many parameters

; inactivated (commented out with an ";") as possible in the client

; VWGUI.INI file. However, the client VWGUI.INI file MUST have

; the "Alias" name set to a unique combination of letters to

; differenciate one client computer from another. The Alias name

; is also known as the mail-node-address and is used to uniquely

; identify messages between mailboxes such as the those used by the

; GUI/Engine. The Alias name is not to be confused with the PID (personal

; ID) which is used to identify a person uniquely.

;

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

; Global parameters

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

;

; The following parameters are typically set in the global INI file

; and are commented out in the client INI



; Define the Site

SiteId=AS001

SiteNameSuffix=Boragine

; Path to the File Set Map (default is .\Objects)

FileSetMap=.\FsMap



; Main Widget Entity name

MAINWIDGET=VW!MF



; 1 if VW!MF can close window with out VW Engine permission, 0 if not

APPCLOSE=0



; Show the Engine Window? 0=No, 1=Yes

SHOWENGINE=0



; 1 if the GUI sends Start & Stop messages to the VW Engine, 0 if not

USEIDLE=1



; Path to the Visual World Media Player

; For 16-bit systems use mmplay16.exe

; For 32-bit systems use mmplayer.exe

MMPLAYER=.\mmplayer.exe



; GUI working directory where VWGUI.EXE application resides

MWROOT=.\



; Path where ARTWORK resides

PICPATH=.\ArtWork*



; Path where VW Engine resides

DLEXE=.\RunTime.exe



; Path to the Visual World Working Directory

DLDIR=.\



; Path to the GUI executable

GUIPATH=.\VwGui.exe



; Path to the main view background artwork

; old GUIBACKGROUND=..\ArtWork\MILKWYO0.PCX

GUIBACKGROUND=.\ArtWork\MILKWAO0.PCX



; Path to Disp.exe

Dispatcher=.\Disp.exe



; Pinging interval to allow Dispatcher to remove non-responding mail nodes

PING_INTRVL=60000



; Time since last registered ping before node is

; removed from the dispatcher

DELTA_INTRVL=120000



; Novell TLI polling timer

NWIPX_INTRVL=1000



; Smallest increment of time allowed

TIMER_BASE=100



; Controls Expiration of Passwords

PW_EXPIRE=NO



;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

; Client parameters - These should be set on the Local vwgui.ini file

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;



; Machine name alias - also known as the mail node name

;Alias=WS001



; These flags determine which type of networking is to be used by the

; dispatcher (DISP.EXE) for mailbox communications.

; If all are off it means non-network communication.

; TCPIP is Tcp/Ip protocol. IPX is non-Novell IPX. NWIPX is Novell IPX

TCPIP=0

IPX=0

NWIPX=0



; Default font to use within Visual World.

FONTNAME=ARIAL

FONTSIZE=9



; Name of the temp file that is used to pass media filename

; between the VW Engine and the Visual World Media Player

MEDIAPATH=C:\FILEPATH.VWM



; Name of the temp file that is used for saving Audio (.wav) files

WAVESAVE=C:\VW.WAV



; Name of the temp file that is used for saving Video (.avi) files

IMAGESAVE=C:\VW.AVI



[Defaults]



; Default Foregraound and Background colors

Foregroundcolor=BLACK

Backgroundcolor=BRIGHT_GRAY



[Registration]

[John Drescher]

Can Wine be used to access a network app?  I'm getting an error from my network app

"Invalid or Missing Alias Name in Client VWGUI.INI
Alias (MailNodeName) Must Contain AlphNumerics ONLY
No Special Characters or Spaces
Press <Enter> to continue..."

Any suggestions appreciated.  I"m new to Wine.

Looks like you did not configure the application correctly. I mean did
you edit VWGUI.INI and do what it said.

John

[gldfshkpr]

Can Wine be used to access a network app?  I'm getting an error from my network app

"Invalid or Missing Alias Name in Client VWGUI.INI
Alias (MailNodeName) Must Contain AlphNumerics ONLY
No Special Characters or Spaces
Press <Enter> to continue..."

Any suggestions appreciated.  I"m new to Wine.

Looks like you did not configure the application correctly. I mean did
you edit VWGUI.INI and do what it said.

John

I did not edit the VWGUI.INI file. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to edit. Thanks John.

[gldfshkpr]

So... I found an .ini file on a Win machine (client) on C:Windows. I copied it and put the same file on Wine>C:Windows. I also found another .ini file and copied it over. I found a file called VWGUI.EXE-045667A7.pf in a folder called Prefetch within C:Windows on the Win machine and copied the entire folder over to Wine.

I"m getting the same response. The program opens halfway and then gives me the msg. about a missing or invalid Client Alias name. Anyone care to take a stab at this? I have all day.

[gldfshkpr]

Well, I copied the entire application over to the Wine folder C: just like it appears on the Win machines and am getting the same response.

[John Drescher]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:01 PM, gldfshkpr <[email protected]> wrote:

Well, I copied the entire application over to the Wine folder C: just like it appears on the Win machines and am getting the same response.

Did you try to install the application at first or just copy the executable?

Does a file named VWGUI.INI exist?

John

[gldfshkpr]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:01 PM, gldfshkpr <[email protected]> wrote:

Well, I copied the entire application over to the Wine folder C: just like it appears on the Win machines and am getting the same response.

Did you try to install the application at first or just copy the executable?

Does a file named VWGUI.INI exist?

John

The entire app resides in a folder off the C drive including .dll, .exe, .bin files, etc. There are two VWGUI.INI files. One is the Global that lives on the Server and one is the Client that lives on the Client computers in the C:Windows folder. The client one is an empty .INI file. It needs to be there, but it get's it's info from the Global .INI I'm guessing.

I've copied the entire folder over to Win computers before and it's worked as a local application no problem. It's so close to working. It gives me two of the three windows it opens. One is a dispatcher window, one is the main window and the one I'm not getting is an engine window.

I realize I'm not explaining this very well. The more questions that are asked of me, the better I might be able to explain what I'm trying to do.

I've copied everything and added it as an application through the Wine GUI as well.

[gldfshkpr]

[/quote]
Did you try to install the application at first or just copy the executable?

Does a file named VWGUI.INI exist?

John[/quote]
John, to be clear, there is no installer for this application. It is a relational database we use at the office. I inherited it a few years back when we bought out a business. It's a custom application. I'm trying to incorporate Linux into our business and this is an app our staff uses on a daily basis.

[John Drescher]

VWGUI.INI exists and you copied it from a working windows box so

The following error tells me that when parsing the VWGUI.INI file the
program had an error and it appears that the value it gets for the
variable MailNodeName is incorrect or wine is not interpreting it
correctly.

"Invalid or Missing Alias Name in Client VWGUI.INI
Alias (MailNodeName) Must Contain AlphNumerics ONLY
No Special Characters or Spaces
Press <Enter> to continue..."

If wine is not interpreting the result correctly it is possible that
installing a native dll (possibly msvcrt) will help.

Also can you post the terminal output, possibly there is something in
there that will tell us.

[austin987]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:09 PM, gldfshkpr <[email protected]> wrote:

John Drescher wrote:

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:01 PM, gldfshkpr <[email protected]> wrote:

Did you try to install the application at first or just copy the executable?

Does a file named VWGUI.INI exist?

John

John, to be clear, there is no installer for this application.  It is a relational database we use at the office.  I inherited it a few years back when we bought out a business. It's a custom application.  I'm trying to incorporate Linux into our business and this is an app our staff uses on a daily basis.






[/quote]
What kind of networking does it use? Windows networking (SMB)? Regular
http? Something else?

--
-Austin

[vitamin]

;Alias=WS001

Obviously you have to edit this. What's that line looks like on a working install?

[John Drescher]

gldfshkpr wrote:

;Alias=WS001

Obviously you have to edit this. What's that line looks like on a working install?

Now when I see the file (it did not get to the mailing list) I believe
this line needs uncommented, I mean.

Alias=WS001

instead of

;Alias=WS001

John

[IneedAname]

On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:51:56 -0600
"gldfshkpr" <[email protected]> wrote:

I"m getting the same response. The program opens halfway and then gives me the msg. about a missing or invalid Client Alias name. Anyone care to take a stab at this? I have all day.

A program name would be useful.