Update on SnetTerm with Wine

I was contacted by someone who found my post about SnetTerm and Wine. Unfortunately, they ran into the same problem I did.

After loading the necessary libraries into the virtual directories, SnetTerm stopped giving errors. However, it also refused to draw anything on the screen.

Not sure if this is a Wine related error or a missing library.

I have two virtualized instances of Windows Server 2008 running IIS. Each machine has been given 8 GB of RAM, and while they are only running a few clients with a few applications each, memory usage was running at 75%. This doesn't include swap file usage; just pure raw memory.

There is some kind of memory leak, I suspect. A restart of the system brought it back down to 14%.

24 hours later, memory usage at 22%. I'll keep an eye on this.

Learning Drupal

While lurking on RedFlagDeals.com Computers and Electronics forum I came across a post mentioning this thing called Drupal. Did a bit of googling to discover that it is a content management system for web content. My HTML is quite good but my PHP and CGI is lacking. If Drupal proves to be an easier way to create complex web sites I just may consider entering the web design market on the side again.

Installing SNetTerm on Debian Etch

My employer writes customs brokerage software that takes advantage of many features in the ssh client SNetTerm. As a result, we recommend it to our clients, despite development done under Linux.

I have been asked to get this software running under Linux. My goal today is to have SNetTerm running under Debian Etch, so as to avoid to the need for Windows licenses for our development team in the future.

My initial guess is that this can be done under Wine.

Booted up a virtual machine using Sun VirtualBox and installed Debian Etch.

Update the repository: sudo apt-get update
Upgrade the system: sudo apt-get upgrade

I tried installing the latest version located in the repository but this didn't want to execute with the wine command. I tried both the installer and the binary from a folder of the installed client from a Windows machine. No luck.

Went to winehq and downloaded the latest version for etch.

Tells me I need new headers. Okay then.

Install the latest linux headers
Install the latest g++ compiler

Looks good, I try the installer again. Nice. Next next next next...

Seemed everything installed properly. Let's try running that desktop icon.

I get an error looking for tapi32.dll

Ok, found the dll at dlldump.com - and I copied it to wine's system32 directory. However, this time I run the program, I get no error message and no SNet Term.

Welcome

Welcome! I will be setting up a dedicated hosting solution soon, but until I do, I thought it would be a great idea to blog the whole process.

Let's see how this google thing works.

Cheers