wine users - Feb 2001 - Write problems

When i start a program like excel or something else it works.
But i can't save my work to hd.
I think there is something wrong with te read/write permissions
of the hd.... How can i correct that ?



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On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 JP.Hermans@pandora.be wrote:
> When i start a program like excel or something else it works.
> But i can't save my work to hd.
> I think there is something wrong with te read/write permissions
> of the hd.... How can i correct that ?
> 
> 
Depends what it is.  :-)

If the user who runs Wine has not write permission to the partition
where it is trying to save a file, of course this will make it
difficult.

How to work with native windose partitions is pretty well covered in
a section "Dealing With FAT/VFAT Partitions" near the end of
<wine>/documentation/installing.sgml, or you can find a pointer at
http://www/winehq.com to doco in other formats.  I just use this ugly
little kluge to render sgml almost readable:

#!/bin/sh
sed -e 's/<[^<>]*>//g' -e 's/&lt;/</g' -e
's/&gt;/>/g' $1 |less -ni

Lawson

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JP.Hermans@pandora.be wrote:
> 
> When i start a program like excel or something else it works.
> But i can't save my work to hd.
> I think there is something wrong with te read/write permissions
> of the hd.... How can i correct that ?
You just need to see one thing:
Who is the owner of the mount point ?

Don't know how to do that ? What are you doing in Linux ?
Well, while you don't know how to change the mount permissions (tip:
editing the /etc/fstab) and how to change the file permissions (tip: the
extremelly-well-know-unix-like chown), try running wine as root.

See ya,
Eduardo Costa
(Last tip: PLEASE buy a Linux book or just do like me - spend many hours
discovering Linux tips by yourself. PS: in console, not in X)
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