SIMS with WINE on Mac

[brownium]

Has anyone had any luck (or even bothered trying) getting SIMS to work on a Mac with Wine?

 

We have manage to get the application running but it's flaking out with a SIMS error when it looks for the database connection info, in this case on a network drive (which is mapped in Wine) in a Connect.ini file.

 

Cheers.

[Mcshammer_dj]

post the error

[synaesthesia]

Why on earth bother with wine? seems unnecessarily complicated when it's relatively simple to set up RDP remoteapps and use microsoft RDP for it.

[abillybob]

Why on earth bother with wine? seems unnecessarily complicated when it's relatively simple to set up RDP remoteapps and use microsoft RDP for it.

 

How? I'd quite like to know how to do this

[Ephelyon]

How? I'd quite like to know how to do this

 

The process can be more or less involved depending on how far you want to go with it, but we're doing something similar here to allow staff with Macs at home to access school applications. PM me if you like.

Edited December 18, 2014 by Ephelyon

[fiza]

Why on earth bother with wine?

 

I quite like a glass in the evenings.

[Quackers]

I had a play around about a year ago, just kept hitting a brick wall, use Wine for a few things but SIMS is just way too demanding. Either do the remote apps as synaesthesia says or get 2X which gives a slightly better user experience allowing you to put the SIMS icons on the Mac Desktop and Dock and makes it feel more like its running on the Mac. Edited December 18, 2014 by Quackers

[synaesthesia]

That's exactly what the remoteapps will do, as far as the user is concerned it'll appear as if it's running on the mac. Best use a separate server from the SIMS box, set up remote access services on windows server and go through the relatively straight forward setup for remoteapps and remote gateway. You don't need anything complicated, my RDP file for this is the following:

 

redirectclipboard:i:1
redirectposdevices:i:0
redirectprinters:i:1
redirectcomports:i:1
redirectsmartcards:i:1
devicestoredirect:s:*
drivestoredirect:s:*
redirectdrives:i:1
session bpp:i:16
prompt for credentials on client:i:1
span monitors:i:0
use multimon:i:0
remoteapplicationmode:i:1
server port:i:3389
allow font smoothing:i:1
promptcredentialonce:i:1
authentication level:i:2
gatewayusagemethod:i:2
gatewayprofileusagemethod:i:0
gatewaycredentialssource:i:0
full address:s:remote.server.fqdn.here.com
alternate shell:s:||SIMS
remoteapplicationprogram:s:||SIMS
gatewayhostname:s:remote.server.fqdn.here.com
remoteapplicationname:s:SIMS .net
remoteapplicationcmdline:s:"C:\Program Files (x86)\SIMS\SIMS .net\Pulsar.exe"
alternate full address:s:remote.server.fqdn.here.com

[fiza]

@synaesthesia - not directly related to SIMS remoteapp but can users print on their local printer when connected to a remote app?

I need to set up SAGE as a remoteapp but require local printing.

[synaesthesia]

Not sure, never looked into that. I would make a base assumption of yes, as when you set up any RDP connection you get the option to allow access to local devices - so for instance starting mstsc, under local resources you can tick printers and clipboard at the bottom. (which is redirectprinters:i:1 in the above RDP file)