[cw-discuss] Ubuntu + CXO = Confusion :)

[Dow_Hurst]

You should do what the other guy said about changing the root password.  However, a simple ssh -X root at localhost will give you X access once your able to get in as root.  Disable the xhost+ command you issued.  You don't want to leave that open.  I've installed many a program that required X access as root using that method.
Dow


-----Original Message-----
>From: Phil Stopford <phil at ldex.terica.net>
>Sent: Aug 11, 2006 1:26 PM
>To: discuss at crossover.codeweavers.com
>Subject: [cw-discuss] Ubuntu + CXO = Confusion :)
>
>Hi all,
>
>I'm largely lurking until Wine bug 2398 gets squashed, otherwise I'm
>stuck with CXO 3.x for my current purposes *sigh* That said, I did write
>my doctoral thesis using CXO 4.x and it never let me down and I keep a 
>current version of CXO installed.
>
>Having moved away from SUSE due to its rather poor 10.1 release and the 
>rapid fall off in community interest for the superior 10.0 release, I 
>found myself installing Ubuntu's latest. It's pretty nice, but CXO seems 
>to have a lot of trouble with it:
>
>1) The Loki installer simply refuses to play ball because the home 
>directory is not owned by root. This seems related to the non-existence 
>of an active root account.
>
>2) Despite the Loki installer being the recommended option, I went ahead 
>and installed the debian package. No problems there, but no 
>configuration tool is shown at the end. Hmmm. Running :
>
>sudo /opt/cxoffice/bin/cxsetup
>
>gets nowhere because it cannot connect to the X server. Usually 'xhost 
>+localhost' and using 'su -' sorts this out, but no such luck here. I'd 
>like to set up managed multiple user mode, but there seems no way to do it.
>
>Needless to say, I'm a little confused. Is MMU mode supported under 
>Ubuntu, or is CXO stuck with per-user configuration at the moment? 
>Calling /opt/cxoffice/bin/cxsetup as a regular user works just fine.
>
>I couldn't come up with anything useful from a trawl around the 
>numerous, isolated pockets of information on the CW site (it really, 
>really needs a wiki to consolidate the various hints/tips/known issues)
>
>3) Having got per-user mode running (boo! this puts heavy load on disk 
>space and makes it much more difficult to update apps), I would have 
>liked to be able to install some IE-dependent apps in a Win2K bottle. 
>This doesn't seem to be supported because IE is installed into Win98 
>instead. This is confusing. I'm wondering which of the following is true :
>
>- Can we install IE into bottles other than Win98, without everything 
>going pear shaped?
>- If not, is IE emulated somehow in these other bottles, or is there no 
>way to reconcile the IE-dependency for Win2K.
>
>I am....confused. Documentation seems to be vague or non-existant. Help 
>:) This is what you get when I renew my subscription :b
>
>Phil Stopford.
>
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