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#1 2020-11-22 00:24:48

MountainX
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Registered: 2016-02-08
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Looking for SeamlessRDP and winbind

My goal is to help someone run Excel 2013 on Arch Linux. I'm exploring the wine / Crossover / PlayOnLinux options, as well as KVM.

For PlayOnLinux, I need winbind, but I don't find any package with that name.

For KVM, SeamlessRDP was recommended, and I also do not find any Arch package for that.

Do they have other names? Or should I be looking for different projects that implement this now? I have little to no experience with Windows stuff (either on Windows or on Linux).

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#2 2020-11-22 04:24:02

loqs
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Re: Looking for SeamlessRDP and winbind

MountainX wrote:

For PlayOnLinux, I need winbind, but I don't find any package with that name.

# pacman -Fy
pacman -Fx winbind
MountainX wrote:

For KVM, SeamlessRDP was recommended, and I also do not find any Arch package for that.

See Rdesktop

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#3 2020-11-22 06:57:48

MountainX
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Re: Looking for SeamlessRDP and winbind

loqs wrote:
MountainX wrote:

For PlayOnLinux, I need winbind, but I don't find any package with that name.

# pacman -Fy
pacman -Fx winbind
MountainX wrote:

For KVM, SeamlessRDP was recommended, and I also do not find any Arch package for that.

See Rdesktop

Thank you. I found winbind in samba and installed Office 2013 with PlayOnLinux. But I cannot get Excel to run after a lot of troubleshooting effort. I'm questioning why even go thru this effort to run proprietary software. I will try again to find out if there are open source alternatives that will meet the requirements. Failing that, I think I will try the VM route.

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#4 2020-11-22 13:28:27

Lone_Wolf
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Re: Looking for SeamlessRDP and winbind

I will try again to find out if there are open source alternatives that will meet the requirements.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Li … ons#Office should help to start the search


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#5 2020-11-22 13:32:34

progandy
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Re: Looking for SeamlessRDP and winbind

For running office in a virtual machine, maybe look at this project: https://github.com/Fmstrat/winapps


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