Problems with ~/.wine/dosdevices symlinks on samba servers

Ben Klein shacklein at gmail.com
Mon Jun 22 01:52:53 CDT 2009


2009/6/22 Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com>:
> On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Dan Kegel<dank at kegel.com> wrote:
>> According to
>> http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux/browse_thread/thread/9b0c746965d34f73
>> a user is having trouble because the symlinks in ~/.wine/dosdevices
>> don't work when on a Samba share.
>>
>> It's unfortunate at this late date to realize that one
>> of the key choices Wine made isn't compatible
>> with the cifs/samba combination... but I guess
>> nobody expected home directories to be served
>> with that network filesystem.
>>
>> If this turns out to be a real problem, what are our options?
>> The first thing that comes to mind is to notice
>> the problem and fall back to underscore instead of colon somehow...
>
> FWIW, he also posted it to
> http://groups.google.com/group/linux.samba/browse_thread/thread/a00c04cccf1a40fb#
>
>
>

In my opinion CIFS is unsuitable for such Unixy things as home
directories. Is the problem just the : in the filename (in which case
it's expected behaviour on Windowsy filesystems) or the fact that a
symlink is being used?



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