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Thanks again for the reply. This must be an office, MS Word and Excel issue.
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ls -al /mnt shows the directroy as 0777 so it should be wide open from
the linux side<br>
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The following is the config definition:<br>
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[Drive C]<br>
"Path" = "/mnt/win98"<br>
"Type" = "hd"<br>
"Label" = "win98"<br>
"Filesystem" = "win95"<br>
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Is there any other wine definition that could be blocking a write??<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Dan<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:lawson_whitney@juno.com">lawson_whitney@juno.com</a> wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Dan Sawyer wrote:<br><br></pre>
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<pre wrap="">Lawson,<br><br>Thanks for the reply. A couple of follow-up points:<br><br>1. wine is being run from root<br><br>2. many apps seem to be able to perform writes without the issue<br><br>3. it appears both excel and word have the problem<br><br>(ps I tried to change the mount permissions and was unable to effect<br>them at all.)<br></pre>
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<pre wrap=""><!----><br>permissions for the whole filesystem are set by the mount command<br>itself. Changing permissions of the mount point doesn't work, and<br>changing /etc/fstab has no effect until the next time the fs is mounted.<br>You could of course change fstab and order root to umount and mount<br>again. If I am telling you something you know, sorry... permissions are<br>set according to the umask= entry in fstab or the mount command (see man<br>2 umask and/or "help umask"); or you can set the owner/ group with uid=<br>/ gid=.<br><br>I wasn't driving at permissions, necessarily, but to the fstype it is<br>mounted as. You can mount a fat32 partition -t msdos, then<br>filenames will be limited to 8.3. I just tried this, with<br>"Filesystem" = "win95", and while notepad.exe (from wfw 3.11, I think)<br>could save "short.txt" it popped a message box that it could not create<br>"foogleannemar.txt". If you want vfat behavior, in effect, you have to<br>specify it b
oth to the OS and to wine. Mount it -t vfat.<br>(Oh, I ran that as root, I didn't bother to fix permissions or owner -<br>I wasn't sure if the fat32 code was in vfat or in msdos so it was just a<br>quick test to see I know what I'm talking about).<br><br></pre>
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<pre wrap="">Thanks,<br>Dan<br><br></pre>
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