Wine, Avid and VPN

[nlavon]

I want to use an Avid application called iNews on my Ubuntu Studio 8.04 setup.

iNews is installed on my Windows machine and using a VPN, can connect to our system at work, and display news headines, stories, etc. No problem on Windows.

I have installed iNews through Wine 1.1.1 on the Linux and I have connected the VPN through the Linux Cisco VPN client, but when I open iNews, I get an error message saying Error Opening Search and Datagram Sockets, then I get an invalid user ID and login.

I noticed in the Wine FAQ a host name resolution test so I will try that. This has also come up on the Wine forum on Ubuntu but with no resolution. I would be interested to see if anyone has any ideas on whether or not the Avid application iNews could work on the Linux machine.

Any help gratefully appreciated. Thank you.

[vitamin]

I want to use an Avid application called iNews on my Ubuntu Studio 8.04 setup.

iNews is installed on my Windows machine and using a VPN, can connect to our system at work, and display news headines, stories, etc. No problem on Windows.

I have installed iNews through Wine 1.1.1 on the Linux and I have connected the VPN through the Linux Cisco VPN client, but when I open iNews, I get an error message saying Error Opening Search and Datagram Sockets, then I get an invalid user ID and login.

I noticed in the Wine FAQ a host name resolution test so I will try that. This has also come up on the Wine forum on Ubuntu but with no resolution. I would be interested to see if anyone has any ideas on whether or not the Avid application iNews could work on the Linux machine.

Any help gratefully appreciated. Thank you.

Anything in the terminal when you run the program?

[nlavon]

No, nothing in the terminal. I log into my Cisco VPN through the terminal (the Evolution Net Mgr never was able to do this) and get all the boilerplate telling me I am connected.

I then am able to open the Avid iNews through an icon established on the desktop. The program opens perfectly but when I put in my user name and password, I get the error message I referenced earlier, then another error message saying it's an invalid username and password.

I haven't looked in the terminal, although I did see on the FAQ a reference to an operation involving the host name resolving the IP address. I haven't done that yet (it's too nice a day outside!) but plan to get to it.

Just from memory, I did not see anything in the terminal nor did I start the program from the terminal. I'll do that and report back.

Thanks for the interest. I'll let you know what I find.

[vitamin]

I then am able to open the Avid iNews through an icon established on the desktop.

Run that program from the terminal.

[nlavon]

OK, I'll give it a try and let you know what happens. Thanks!

[nlavon]

I tried running the Avid program through the terminal. Try One, I connected to the VPN then ran "$wine start "C:\\Program Files\\Avid\\iNews\\anws.exe.

This is what I got back:

"nlavon@nlavon-desktop:~$ wine start "C:\\Program Files\\Avid\\iNEWS\\anws.exe"
fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000500
nlavon@nlavon-desktop:~$
fixmeX11DRV_ActivateKeyboardLayout 0x400, 0008: stub!"

Then the program started with the same errors I had before.

Any ideas what this means? I've googled it and seen references to it but no explanations that I can use.

Thanks for any help.

[vitamin]

Any ideas what this means?

Nothing relevant. If that's all you are getting it's still not clear what's going on.

[nlavon]

I just tried starting the program without going through my VPN to see what would happen. The same error messages in the terminal but the program does not give me the sockets and datagram error I got before and actually tries to find the server specified.

Tomorrow I will try and install the Windows version of the VPN client under Wine and see if that makes any difference.