Running Sage Timberline workstation under Wine

Sage Timberline (version 9.4.1) is a Windows 2003 Server based accounting system which is normally accessed by workstations. To setup the workstation client under Windows, one maps a drive to the server share, moves to the Accounting/wininstall directory, and clicks on Install.exe. This calls up the Timberline Main Menu, one selects Install Timberline, and it loads the necessary software client on to the workstation.

I wanted to try running the Windows workstation client under WINE, so mapped a drive to the Server share - let's call it x: - and at a terminal prompt as root, typed:

wine "x:\Accounting\wininstall\install.exe"

This worked perfectly, and brought up the Timberline Main Menu.

"Fantastic,", I thought, and selected the "Install Timberline" option, which brought up this error message:

"The installed version cannot be directly upgraded. Upgrade to version 8.3.0, and then upgrade to the version that you want to install.".

I have been able to reliably repeat this many times - the above command under Wine produces the lines about the wrong version, the same command on a Windows workstation loads the client properly.

Can anybody shed any light on what might be happening, please?

Server Details:

Windows 2003 Server Std R2 32-bit
Sage Timberline v. 9.4.1

Workstation details:
Ubuntu 8.4.1
Wine version 1.0
Logged in as root

Research done:

Googled "Timberline under Wine" - no results
In this Wine forum, have searched on "Timberline" - no results

Now plumb out of ideas!

Very grateful for any help, please.

Thank you

Graham

Not sure why your location is that way but Timberline's client installation files have always been in a WININST directory and not WININSTALL directory.