[Wine]Re: "Severe - Unable to create a directory under ..."

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Trying again. Any ideas on this one?

Frist sent last Wednesday. No responses so far.
Thanks,
Mark


On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:02:10 -0700, Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>    I'm playing around with installation of a number of older, Win
> 98/Win ME era sound programs. One I'm working on right now comes up
> with what, for me, is sort of a standard problem. I get a dialog box
> with this message:
> 
> "Severe - Unable to create a directory under C:\PROG~FBU\GSampler.
> Please check write access to this directory."
> 
> I'm running the installation from an xterm. The only thing in the
> xterm seems pretty benign:
> 
> flash cdrom $ fixme:dialog:MSGBOX_OnInit task modal msgbox ! Not modal yet.
> 
> The current contents of the GSampler directory are:
> 
> flash mark $ ls c/Program\ Files/GSampler/
> CD1FileSize.lst
> CD2FileSize.lst
> CD3FileSize.lst
> CRP32DLL.DLL
> CRP9516E.DLL
> CRYP95E.DLL
> DeIsL1.isu
> GS.HLP
> GSEDIT.HLP
> GSEnv.dll
> SCONVERT.HLP
> Sconvert.exe
> VRTKRNLD.vxd
> XCK16DB.EXE
> gs.exe
> gsdll.dll
> gsedit.exe
> midi.drv
> mp3FileSize.lst
> oemFileSize.lst
> oemFileSize_GetsAppendedToCD1FileSizeForLeOemBuilds.lst
> register.txt
> release.txt
> unstall.dll
> flash mark $ ls c/Program\ Files/GSampler/
> 
> Now, the GSampler directory was created by this install program. Why
> can't this program create a directory under GSampler? Permissions look
> like:
> 
> flash mark $ ls c/Program\ Files/GSampler/ls -al c/Program\ Files/
> ls: c/Program Files/GSampler/ls: No such file or directory
> c/Program Files/:
> total 36
> drwxr-xr-x  9 mark users 4096 Oct 20 10:52 .
> drwxr-xr-x  8 mark users 4096 Oct 18 19:05 ..
> drwxr-xr-x  2 mark users 4096 May 26 10:20 Common Files
> drwxr-xr-x  4 mark users 4096 Oct 18 18:11 Finale NotePad 2004
> drwxr-xr-x  2 mark users 4096 Oct 20 10:52 GSampler
> drwxr-xr-x  3 mark users 4096 Sep 19 15:53 Native Instruments
> drwxr-xr-x  3 mark users 4096 May 28 07:55 Sonic Foundry Setup
> drwxr-xr-x  4 mark users 4096 Sep 18 08:59 Steinberg
> drwxr-xr-x  2 mark users 4096 Sep 18 11:44 Vstplugins
> flash mark $
> 
> And the Wine threads seemed to be owned by me:
> 
> mark     .. 10:51   0:11 /usr/bin/wineserver
> mark     .. 10:51   0:09 /usr/bin/wine-pthread E:\_ins0432._mp
> -fS:\SETUP.INS -z1 -cx -xE:\
> 
> What can I do to allow the program to write to this location???
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
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