Problems with ~/.wine/dosdevices symlinks on samba servers

Dan Kegel dank at kegel.com
Sun Jun 21 21:30:51 CDT 2009


On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Dan Kegel<dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> According to
> http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux/browse_thread/thread/9b0c746965d34f73
> a user is having trouble because the symlinks in ~/.wine/dosdevices
> don't work when on a Samba share.
>
> It's unfortunate at this late date to realize that one
> of the key choices Wine made isn't compatible
> with the cifs/samba combination... but I guess
> nobody expected home directories to be served
> with that network filesystem.
>
> If this turns out to be a real problem, what are our options?
> The first thing that comes to mind is to notice
> the problem and fall back to underscore instead of colon somehow...

FWIW, he also posted it to
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.samba/browse_thread/thread/a00c04cccf1a40fb#



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