[Wine] Re: Wine with CIFS home directory

Daniel Skorka skorka at gmx.net
Mon Mar 19 00:45:53 CDT 2007


ddoctor at kamikazeperverts.com wrote:
> How do I get wine to run from somewhere else?

'man wine', look for WINEPREFIX

> [samplesurgeon at camembert ~]$ winecfg
> wine: creating configuration directory '/home/samplesurgeon/.wine'...
> ln: creating symbolic link
> `/home/samplesurgeon/.wine-TI6iMN/dosdevices/c:' to `../drive_c':
> Operation not supported
> wine: wineprefixcreate failed while creating
> '/home/samplesurgeon/.wine'.
> 
> I don't even really understand why the windows c drive would be mounted
> within /home/user anyway - wouldn't it make sense to put it in, eg
> /wine or /drive_c - somewhere NOT user-specific. After all - Linux
> programs run from /bin, not /home/username/bin

Because in the setup you propose, an ordinary user wouldn't be able to
install programs just like that. Also, many windows programs expect
write permissions to their own directory. In your setup, this would
require either ACLs or really awkward constructs. It is possible, it
just doesn't make sense for most of the wine users.

Daniel


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