wine app cannot open 'c' drive ??

[Dan Sawyer]

Yes, it is a real Win partition. Other wine apps can read it without an 
issue.

Is there a howto on building a fake partition. The last time I tried it 
failed miserably so I have stuck with the real partition.

Regards,
Dan

Duane Clark wrote:

> Dan Sawyer wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> The app is MSWord; I am trying to open 'C' and MSWord/Wine reports a 
>> violation on attempting to open the dir. Other apps can read the 
>> directory. Where or how does Wine read privileges??
>>
>
> But can other applications write to the directory? It looks to me from 
> another post that you might be using a real Windows partition, so the 
> permissions are determined by /etc/fstab. In general, unless required 
> for some specific reason, you are probably better off with a "fake" 
> partition, and copying over any desired DLLs and fonts.
>
>
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