Hi all, I'm having trouble getting Access 97 working with Wine 20041019. Word and Excel work just fine, as far as I've used them, but Access simply refuses to start. I've installed off an original installer CD through the WineTools ( 2.11jo) utility. I customised the install, removing everything except for the basic application files for Word, Excel and Access. I've also installed all of the Base Setup and all of the Windows System Software from WineTools. During install, it complains about not being able to update the workgroup database, but the install completes fine anyway. When I navigate to Access's folder and type "wine MSACCESS.EXE", the splash screen comes up just fine, then a second later, I get an error dialogue box: Microsoft Access couldn't find the file "C:\windows\system\system.mdw". This file is required for startup. Doing a bit of reasearch, I learnt that this file has something to do with Access's workgroup (tee hee) functions. I tried touching the file and setting it to 777, also tried copying system.mdw from a "real" Windows machine, but both of these solutions ends up with an out of memory dialogue on launch. It's progress though, I got a *different* error. :-) The single line of Wine output doesn't seem to be too serious: fixme:font:SetMapperFlags (0xa4, 0x00000001): stub - harmless Can anyone help, please? If I can get Access working on this setup, I'll be able to get rid of Windows on all our machines here. Access is the only thing stopping me from rolling Linux out to all our desktops. Grr. Access. Grr. To sum up, my setup is: - Gentoo 2005.0 - Wine 20041019 - WineTools 2.11jo Thanks in advance, .....jurgen -- thinger@gmail.com is jurgen's gmail address. Visit http://jurgen.ca/ for more yummy goodness. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20050504/10cb6519/attachment.html
Am Mi, Mai 04, 2005 at 12:21:32 +1000 schrieb jurgen:> I'm having trouble getting Access 97 working with Wine 20041019. Word and > Excel work just fine, as far as I've used them, but Access simply refuses to > start. I've installed off an original installer CD through the WineTools ( > 2.11jo) utility. I customised the install, removing everything except for > the basic application files for Word, Excel and Access. I've also installed > all of the Base Setup and all of the Windows System Software from WineTools. > > During install, it complains about not being able to update the workgroup > database, but the install completes fine anyway. When I navigate to Access's > folder and type "wine MSACCESS.EXE", the splash screen comes up just fine, > then a second later, I get an error dialogue box: > > Microsoft Access couldn't find the file "C:\windows\system\system.mdw". This > file is required for startup.Very interesting as I do not have this file on my whole harddisk and Access just works fine. The only difference between your and my setup I can see is that I installed the whole Office 2000 Suite. Hmmm, sorry, I overlooked that you mean Access '97. I don't know whether it works very well. Will try tonight. Regards Joachim von Thadden -- "Never touch a running system! Never run a touching system? Never run a touchy system!!!"
jurgen wrote:> Hi all, > > I'm having trouble getting Access 97 working with Wine 20041019. Word and > Excel work just fine, as far as I've used them, but Access simply refuses > to start. I've installed off an original installer CD through the > WineTools ( 2.11jo) utility. I customised the install, removing everything > except for the basic application files for Word, Excel and Access. I've > also installed all of the Base Setup and all of the Windows System > Software from WineTools. > > During install, it complains about not being able to update the workgroup > database, but the install completes fine anyway. When I navigate to > Access's folder and type "wine MSACCESS.EXE", the splash screen comes up > just fine, then a second later, I get an error dialogue box: > > Microsoft Access couldn't find the file "C:\windows\system\system.mdw". > This file is required for startup. > > Doing a bit of reasearch, I learnt that this file has something to do with > Access's workgroup (tee hee) functions. I tried touching the file and > setting it to 777, also tried copying system.mdw from a "real" Windows > machine, but both of these solutions ends up with an out of memory > dialogue on launch. It's progress though, I got a *different* error. :-)IIRC there is a utility installed in the access directory to switch and create new workgroups. Other system.mda's won't work, since they are created individually for your system at installation time. Try to run this tool and create a new one and switch the access system to it. - J?rg