wine and microsoft word file write errors ???

[Dan Sawyer]

Lawson,

I did read your suggested input and validated that in fact they were all 
implemented.  

This reply was a reply to a second answer. 

Here is the fstab section:

/dev/hda3       /          ext2    defaults        1 1
/dev/hda7    /usr        ext2    defaults,auto    0 0
/dev/hda6    /home          ext2    defaults,auto     0 0   
/dev/hda1    /mnt/win98  vfat    defaults,auto,umask=0,sync    0 0   

Here is the referenced ls /mnt output line:

drwxrwxrwx   21 root     root         4096 Dec 31  1969 win98

Here is the copy of the $HOME/.wine/config file

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

It was your input that got the permissions to 0777, however Word still 
fails.

This error must be either part of a registry or word config parameter, etc.

Again,  Thank you for your help,
Dan



lawson_whitney at juno.com wrote:

>On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, dan wrote:
>
>>Pavel,
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Yes /mnt/win98 is mounted as 0777 and word still can't write.
>>
>>The error messages are in 8.3 format, it may be a word config thing.
>>
>>Dan
>>
>
>You thnaked me for my comments, you quoted them, but AFAICT, you didn't
>read them.  A fat32 partition can be mounted either msdos or vfat.
>If it has the fstype msdos, Linux will limit filenames to 8.3; with
>"Filesystem" = "win95" (or "vfat"), Wine will not.  The result will be
>that any attempt to write a file with a name that is not 8.3 will fail,
>probably with a messagebox.
>
>A fstype of auto will try filesystems in the order they appear in
>/etc/filesystems if it exists, or in /proc/filesystems, and use the
>first one that works, be it msdos or vfat.
>
>to fix that, umount the filesystem, change its /etc/fstab line to be
>fstype vfat and remount it.
>
>Of course this is pure speculation, but it is one reason an app might
>not be _able_ to create a file even though it may be permitted to.
>
>You could also try running
>
>wine --debugmsg +file blah.exe 2>&1|tee logfile
>
>to see what Wine is trying to do and what joy it is getting doing it.
>
>Lawson
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