Re: wine and microsoft word file write errors ???

Dan Sawyer <dansawyer@earthlink.net> · Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:39:07 -0800

Thanks again for the reply. This must be an office, MS Word and Excel issue.

ls -al   /mnt     shows the directroy as 0777 so it should be wide open from
the linux side

The following is the config definition:

[Drive C]

"Path" = "/mnt/win98"

"Type" = "hd"

"Label" = "win98"

"Filesystem" = "win95"

Is there any other wine definition that could be blocking a write??

Thanks,

Dan

lawson_whitney@juno.com wrote:

20011212.221114.134661176.1.lawson_whitney@juno.com">
  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 b
oth 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

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