Wine problem under Linux Mint 16

[angeltoast]

I am a newbie, so please be gentle with me.

I'm using Wine 1.4.1 in Linux Mint 16.

There are a couple of ex-Windows programs that I have to use, and they have installed without problems before under Mint 14 and 15. One is installing fine in Mint 16, but the other, which requires running a script to install Microsoft dotnet20 and a couple of other essential controls first (including downloading them into the .cache/winetricks folder) before installing the application itself.

This is the script ... winetricks dotnet20sp2 gdiplus comctl32 corefonts comdlg32ocx riched20

As I said, this has worked before, under earlier releases, but falls down under Mint 16 with this error ...
Executing env WINEDLLOVERRIDES=mscoree,fusion=n wine dotnetfx.exe
fixme:advapi:DecryptFileA "C:\\users\\elizabeth\\Temp\\IXP000.TMP\\" 00000000
err:winediag:SECUR32_initNTLMSP ntlm_auth was not found or is outdated. Make sure that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path. Usually, you can find it in the winbind package of your distribution.
fixme:advapi:LsaOpenPolicy ((null),0x33f2f0,0x00000001,0x33f28c) stub
fixme:advapi:LsaClose (0xcafe) stub
fixme:storage:create_storagefile Storage share mode not implemented.
err:msi:msi_load_all_components can't initialize assembly caches
err:msi:msi_load_all_components can't initialize assembly caches
fixme:msi:MsiGetLastErrorRecord
err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"SxsInstallCA" returned 1603

Is this enough information for someone to help me, please?

[dimesio]

I'm using Wine 1.4.1

That version is old and no longer supported. Upgrade to at least the latest stable release, and preferably the latest development release.

err:winediag:SECUR32_initNTLMSP ntlm_auth was not found or is outdated. Make sure that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path. Usually, you can find it in the winbind package of your distribution.

You need to fix that.

[angeltoast]

Ok, I'm not that technically savvy, but I tried this, based on the advice (above) ...

1) Searched in WineHQ for downloads. Added the WineHQ PPA Repository (as advised) via the Software Center in Mint, then installed a more recent version of Wine (why do Mint ship the old version?);
2) Searched in Mint for "winbind" and found a suitable plug-in to Samba (Samba is installed with Mint) and installed it.
3) Opened a terminal and tried the script again, and it worked!

I don't know if it was the newer version of Wine, or the winbind plugin that did it, but I'm happy.

Thanks for the advice.