when i try to run winmx in wine i get this message

[KhzX@localhost KhzX]$ wine c:\\program\ files\WinMX\WinMX.exe
fixme:reg:_nt_dump_lf unknown Win XP node id 0x686c: do we need to add support for it ?
fixme:reg:_nt_dump_lf unknown Win XP node id 0x686c: do we need to add support for it ?
fixme:reg:_nt_dump_lf unknown Win XP node id 0x686c: do we need to add support for it ?
wine: cannot find 'c:\program filesWinMXWinMX.exe'
[KhzX@localhost KhzX]$


any help would be appreciated..
thanks

hmmm, are you in c:\ when you try to run it? Or better yet switch to c:\program\ files\WinMX\ and run it.

hmm ill try that.. ill let you know what happens

i get this now
[KhzX@localhost WinMX]$ wine WinMX.exe
fixme:reg:_nt_dump_lf unknown Win XP node id 0x686c: do we need to add support for it ?
fixme:reg:_nt_dump_lf unknown Win XP node id 0x686c: do we need to add support for it ?
fixme:reg:_nt_dump_lf unknown Win XP node id 0x686c: do we need to add support for it ?
err:font:AddFontFileToList Unable to load font file "/home/KhzX/windoze/windows/Fonts/roman.fon" err = 2
err:font:AddFontFileToList Unable to load font file "/home/KhzX/windoze/windows/Fonts/script.fon" err = 2
err:font:AddFontFileToList Unable to load font file "/home/KhzX/windoze/windows/Fonts/modern.fon" err = 2
err:font:AddFontFileToList Unable to load font file "/home/KhzX/windoze/windows/Fonts/desktop.ini" err = 55
err:mmsys:MMDRV_InitHardcoded You didn't setup properly the config file for the Wine multimedia modules.
Will use the hard-coded setup, but this will disappear soon.
Please add a WinMM section to your Wine config file.
err:shell:SHGetSpecialFolderPathA Failed to create directory 'C:\My Documents'.
err:shell:SHGetSpecialFolderPathA Failed to create directory 'C:\My Documents'.
fixmele:CoRegisterMessageFilter stub
fixmele:CoRegisterMessageFilter stub
[KhzX@localhost WinMX]$

try adding this to your ~/wine/wine.conf or ~/wine/config file. Make sure you have all these DLLs in your DLL folder, and that the DLLs are from a windows 98 machine and not a NT/XP one. http://www.dll-files.com/ can hook you up with DLLs.

[AppDefaults\\winmx.exe\\DllOverrides]
"commctrl" = "native"
"comctl32" = "native"
"ole32" = "native"
"oleaut32" = "native"
"rpcrt4" = "native"
"shdocvw" = "native"
"shlwapi" = "native"

tried it, didnt work

First, to launch and choose good parameters for Wine, use XWine (tar.gz, RPM or source).
With the Wine version installed in my distro (Mandrake 9.1), with default parameters (dll natives), WinMX 3.31 launches quickly and well, one slight malfunction, the complete downloaded file is not renamed, (the INCOMPLETE_name remains). But uploading people see a "normal" complete file.
If WinMX does'nt work with your Wine version, update Wine first. Don't try to use buit-in dlls !

Another information : if you were addicted to XNews (like me) for downloading multimedia files from Usenet, try to launch it with XWine/Wine. It works fine !

And if you can't no longer use Audacity to work with your audio files (libary conflict on the new Mandrake 9.1), install the old Goldwave 4.26 (not GPL, not even free, but ...) and wait for an updated version of Audacity.

Wine is perhaps not yet perfect, but it improves, it's GPL and you remain in Linux environment, far from DualBoot or commercial, slow, virtualmachines (VM...something!)

Hope you have solved it, if not i recommend checking a couple of things:
1) you shouldn't use a NTFS partition for incoming files: write support still sucks
2) unless you have a good reason not to do so, you should set the windows version (section [Version] of config) to win98

also, if you get errors about fonts, be sure to include the right dirs under [FontDirs]

I use a "out of the box" Wine031016: dl source tarball, unpack in /tmp, run tools/install (if i remember well), you can install it as user or 'su' and run 'make install'.
Winmx runs great on debian testing, without any windoze dll, it only has 2 problems:
1. GUI seems to slurp a lot of processing power when visible. Walkaround: 'nice' it, ie launch it with a script/alias as such:
nice wine c:\\path\\to\\winmx.exe
and launch it in a workspace on its own
2. if you open a lot of whois and browse windows, it eventually fills up memory due to a known BUG in winmx not free-ing allocated GUI memory. However unless you keep it going for weeks you won't notice it, since lost memory (a few kb per window) will stay on swap partition

However, time as come for a native winmx-interoperable GPLd P2P
When I'll have some spare time I'll try to extrapolate the protocol specs (I can't understand why guys at frontcode didn't realease them... do they still believe in security through obscuration? C'mon, we're in year 0x7d3 !)