Hello. I tried to search for an answer to this question, but found it difficult to phrase in a way that wouldn't bury the pertinent information in an avalanche of more common usage situations.
My situation is this: My work machine has Windows XP on one partition, and Ubuntu 7.10 on another. Windows is so horribly locked down that I can't install a lot of the software that I need to do my job, and for various reasons I'm forced to operate without the help of the IT department. My user does not have admin privileges, so I cannot install most software.
Most of my needs are met by Ubuntu, except for color printing, which I must boot into Windows for. This is annoying, so I would like to install some of the software I use in Ubuntu (OO.o, Gimp, etc.) in Windows as well.
Finally, my question: Is it possible to install Windows software (that requires admin privs to install) into Windows, through Wine in Ubuntu, thereby circumventing the restrictions of my Windows user account?
Sneaky Windows install through Wine
Re: Sneaky Windows install through Wine
No.amake wrote:Finally, my question:
Is it possible to install Windows software (that requires admin privs to install) into Windows, through Wine in Ubuntu, thereby circumventing the restrictions of my Windows user account?
If anything Wine _will_ break your windows installation if you try to do something like that. Besides Wine can't read native binary registry files so at best you'll get just a bunch of files in some directories. But Wine won't have any problems overwriting number of vital system files with fake Wine files.
