Taken from http://www.ccm.ece.vt.edu/~lscharf/samd/?topic=Linux&title=Radmin+under+Wine : Radmin under Wine Keywords: Date Created: 2002-12-11 Author: Luke Scharf Problem: Radmin, the remote adminstration tool for Windows works great between Windows machines. But, there is no version for Linux; those of us who prefer a Linux desktop need to go to another machine to perform day-to-day maintenance of the Windows machines that we're responsible for. Solution: I e-mailed the sales folks at Famatech. The sales lady forwarded a message from one of their technical people with step-by-step instructions for running radmin under Wine. I don't have permission to post the message, so I will post my own instructions. 1. Install Wine. I use the "codeweavers-wine-20020411-6" that comes with Ximian. 2. Play with Wine a bit and make sure it has the configuration files running. Run Notepad.exe or Sol.exe or something similar to make sure it's working right. Also, I found that I like to adjust the drive letters and a few other personel-preference parameters in "$HOME/.wine/config". 3. Copy the radmin files from a Windows machine where radmin has been installed. I copied the files in the Window's machine's "C:\Program Files\Radmin" directory to "$HOME/.wine/fake_windows/Program Files/Radmin" on my Linux box. I have not tried the installer under Wine yet - it doesn't seem to be needed. 4. Run it. On my Redhat 7.3 + Ximian system, Wine is located in /opt/wine. Your systsm may vary. I use the following line to start Radmin: /opt/wine/bin/wine "$HOME/.wine/fake_windows/Program Files/Radmin/radmin.exe" I've embedded this line into a script called $HOME/bin/radmin. $HOME/bin is in my $PATH, so I can start radmin by just typing "radmin" on the command line. 5. Have fun! Radmin works almost as well under Wine as it does on Windows, except for the gotchas that I mention below. Gotchas: 1. NTAuth is not available on Linux. If you try to connect to a radmin server that is configured to use NT Authentication, the connection will fail. The solution is to change to password authentication. According to this page by the radmin folks, this method is quite secure. I'd like to thank Andrew Pimlott for pointing this out. 2. If you right-click on the title bar of Radmin's remote machine window, you can no longer drag the window or access the window-menu. This means that you can't send a Ctrl+Alt+Del to log in -- and you can't get the sticky and always-on-top window out of the way if you need to do work on your real desktop (unless you have Wine running in "desktop" mode). If you hit Ctrl+F12, the menu will drop down and everything returns to normal. 3. The remote-machine window is sticky and always-on-top. I find this annoying because I want the window to behave like other windows on my desktop -- but I figure that this was probably the best way to map the Microsoft Windows API to an X Windows desktop. I solve this by running Wine in "desktop" mode, where the Windows applications run in their own desktop which is treated as a single window by my X-Windows desktop. Any weirdness that goes on in the Wine window is contained.