On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Dan Sawyer wrote: > Lawson, > > Thanks for the reply. A couple of follow-up points: > > 1. wine is being run from root > > 2. many apps seem to be able to perform writes without the issue > > 3. it appears both excel and word have the problem > > (ps I tried to change the mount permissions and was unable to effect > them at all.) permissions for the whole filesystem are set by the mount command itself. Changing permissions of the mount point doesn't work, and changing /etc/fstab has no effect until the next time the fs is mounted. You could of course change fstab and order root to umount and mount again. If I am telling you something you know, sorry... permissions are set according to the umask= entry in fstab or the mount command (see man 2 umask and/or "help umask"); or you can set the owner/ group with uid= / gid=. I wasn't driving at permissions, necessarily, but to the fstype it is mounted as. You can mount a fat32 partition -t msdos, then filenames will be limited to 8.3. I just tried this, with "Filesystem" = "win95", and while notepad.exe (from wfw 3.11, I think) could save "short.txt" it popped a message box that it could not create "foogleannemar.txt". If you want vfat behavior, in effect, you have to specify it both to the OS and to wine. Mount it -t vfat. (Oh, I ran that as root, I didn't bother to fix permissions or owner - I wasn't sure if the fat32 code was in vfat or in msdos so it was just a quick test to see I know what I'm talking about). > Thanks, > Dan > Lawson | We apologize if this message has reached you in error. | Save the Planet, Save the Trees! Advertise via E mail.
