wine and microsoft word file write errors ???

Dan Sawyer dansawyer at earthlink.net
Thu Dec 13 13:39:07 CST 2001


Thanks again for the reply. This must be an office, MS Word and Excel 
issue.

ls -al   /mnt     shows the directroy as 0777 so it should be wide open 
from the linux side

The following is the config definition:

[Drive C]
"Path" = "/mnt/win98"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "win98"
"Filesystem" = "win95"

Is there any other wine definition that could be blocking a write??

Thanks,
Dan

lawson_whitney at juno.com wrote:

>On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Dan Sawyer wrote:
>
>>Lawson,
>>
>>Thanks for the reply. A couple of follow-up points:
>>
>>1. wine is being run from root
>>
>>2. many apps seem to be able to perform writes without the issue
>>
>>3. it appears both excel and word have the problem
>>
>>(ps I tried to change the mount permissions and was unable to effect
>>them at all.)
>>
>
>permissions for the whole filesystem are set by the mount command
>itself.  Changing permissions of the mount point doesn't work, and
>changing /etc/fstab has no effect until the next time the fs is mounted.
>You could of course change fstab and order root to umount and mount
>again.  If I am telling you something you know, sorry... permissions are
>set according to the umask= entry in fstab or the mount command (see man
>2 umask and/or "help umask"); or you can set the owner/ group with uid=
>/ gid=.
>
>I wasn't driving at permissions, necessarily, but to the fstype it is
>mounted as.  You can mount a fat32 partition -t msdos, then
>filenames will be limited to 8.3.  I just tried this, with
>"Filesystem" = "win95", and while notepad.exe (from wfw 3.11, I think)
>could save "short.txt" it popped a message box that it could not create
>"foogleannemar.txt".  If you want vfat behavior, in effect, you have to
>specify it both to the OS and to wine.  Mount it -t vfat.
>(Oh, I ran that as root, I didn't bother to fix permissions or owner -
>I wasn't sure if the fat32 code was in vfat or in msdos so it was just a
>quick test to see I know what I'm talking about).
>
>>Thanks,
>>Dan
>>
>Lawson
>
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