wine error - services file?

[ph34r]

I'm trying to install the ONE app I'd want windows for (checks our work voicemail and converts it to be much like email) and I'm getting an error both with the wine in Ubuntu 7.10 and the Crossover Office demo (no, it isn't a cxo supported app). Anyway, the installer complains about "unable to open services file".

Now, I'm used to /etc/services - is there a windows version of this I should create before trying to install this app? If so, where should it go? I know windows keeps a hosts file in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts but should there be a services there as well? If so, will my /etc/services file do the job?

Thanks!

[bwkaz]

Yes; we have to edit c:\win{nt,dows}\system32\drivers\etc\services whenever we install a couple different programs at work. These programs don't hardcode a port number; rather they use some API to ask for the port number by name (that API looks in /etc/services on Linux, and in the drivers\etc\services file on Windows).

But anyway: Yes, that file does exist on Windows. I am also fairly sure it uses the same format. :)