Am Dienstag, 2. August 2005 23:06 schrieb Richard C. Steffens: > I'm fairly new to wine. I'm running the version (Wine 20050211) that > comes with SuSE 9.3. I had been using the version that came with SuSE > 9.1 (Wine 20040213), and recently ran the SuSE 9.3 upgrade installation. > > Getting ready to try installing Word Perfect 8.0, I've been reading the > help documents. I recollect a warning not to run wine as root. By > mistake, I did so. When I did, it appeared to change the installation so > that now I have to run wine as root or I get messages such as: > > ------------------------ > Warning: the specified Windows directory L"C:\\Windows" is not accessible. > Warning: the specified System directory L"C:\\Windows\\System" is not > accessible. > ------------------------ I would verify the symlinks in .wine/dosdevices. c: should by default point to your ~/.wine/drive_c (or if you upgraded maybe ~/.wine/fake_windows). on my laptop the dosdevices dir looks like this: munz@acer:/opt/wine> ll ~/.wine/dosdevices/ insgesamt 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 munz users 10 2005-08-02 20:33 c: -> ../drive_c > > and > > ------------------------ > Please use the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\Software\Fonts\LogPixels > to set the screen resolution and remove the "Resolution" entry in the > config file > ------------------------ you can savely ignore this message unless your fonts are too big or small. cu, Stefan > > The .wine directory is in my normal user account, and that's where root > looks for it now. Where do I need to look to learn how to put things > back so that my normal user account can run wine? > > I have some more details in the form of messages that appeared when I > ran wine --help as root: > > ----------------------- > dhcppc1:~ # wine --help > wine: creating configuration directory '/root/.wine'... > Converted windows dir to new entry HKCU\Environment "windir" = > L"c:\\windows" > wine: '/root/.wine' created successfully. > Wine 20050211 > ----------------------- > > Here's most of what I got when I ran wine --help as my normal user: > (The top is missing because I haven't gotten around to increasing the > buffer in Konsole.) > > ----------------------- > Created symlink /home/rsteff/.wine/dosdevices/com1 -> /dev/ttyS0 > Created symlink /home/rsteff/.wine/dosdevices/com2 -> /dev/ttyS1 > Created symlink /home/rsteff/.wine/dosdevices/com3 -> /dev/ttyS2 > Created symlink /home/rsteff/.wine/dosdevices/com4 -> /dev/modem > Created symlink /home/rsteff/.wine/dosdevices/lpt1 -> /dev/lp0 > Created symlink /home/rsteff/.wine/dosdevices/a: -> /media/floppy > Created symlink /home/rsteff/.wine/dosdevices/c: -> > ../%HOME%/.wine/fake_windows > Created symlink /home/rsteff/.wine/dosdevices/m: -> /media/cdrom > Created symlink /home/rsteff/.wine/dosdevices/x: -> /tmp > Created symlink /home/rsteff/.wine/dosdevices/y: -> ../%HOME% > Created symlink /home/rsteff/.wine/dosdevices/z: -> / > Created symlink /home/rsteff/.wine/dosdevices/a:: -> /dev/fd0 > Created symlink /home/rsteff/.wine/dosdevices/m:: -> /dev/sr0 > > You can now remove the [SerialPorts], [ParallelPorts], and [Drive] sections > in your configuration file, they are replaced by the above symlinks. > > Converted drive type to new entry HKLM\Software\Wine\Drives "A:" = > L"floppy" Converted drive type to new entry HKLM\Software\Wine\Drives "C:" > = L"hd" Converted drive type to new entry HKLM\Software\Wine\Drives "M:" = > L"cdrom" Converted drive type to new entry HKLM\Software\Wine\Drives "X:" = > L"hd" Converted drive type to new entry HKLM\Software\Wine\Drives "Y:" = > L"network" > Converted drive type to new entry HKLM\Software\Wine\Drives "Z:" = > L"network" > Converted temp dir to new entry HKCU\Environment "TEMP" = > L"C:\\Windows\\Temp" > Converted path dir to new entry HKCU\Environment "PATH" = > L"C:\\Windows;C:\\Windows\\System;X:\\;Y:\\" > Converted profile dir to new entry HKCU\Environment "USERPROFILE" = > L"c:\\windows\\Profiles\\Administrator" > Converted windows dir to new entry HKCU\Environment "windir" = > L"C:\\Windows" > Converted system dir to new entry HKCU\Environment "winsysdir" = > L"C:\\Windows\\System" > Warning: the specified Windows directory L"C:\\Windows" is not accessible. > Warning: the specified System directory L"C:\\Windows\\System" is not > accessible. > Wine 20050211 > ----------------------- > > Thanks for any advice _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
