[Wine] Re: Photoshop CS2 Refuses to Install

[DaVince]

> By that bizarre reasoning... isn't Wine just one big lie? We're essentially telling applications that Windows is there, even though it's not. EVERYTHING Wine does is a giant lie! 
> 
> The point is, there is a clear option in winecfg to set a drive as either "Network share", "Local disk", "Floppy disk" or "CD-ROM". This option is not there to let Wine know how to use the drive, it's there to tell Wine how to present the drive to Windows applications. 

Actually, telling the program to present the drive as something different than what it is is exactly what I think vitamin meant by "lying" to the application - we'd have to pass some fake values or properties that might not be actually supported on a network share, and this would introduce problems if Wine tells the app that it "has this" (as a stub of sorts) when it actually DOESN'T have it.

How to fix it is a difficulty, and might break other apps because of this. Then again, you ARE using a rare special case where C: is a network share...