Hi there. I'm having trouble with wine and NT. I recently got a new machine at work (hurrah!) but this one has NT installed, and I'm not really allowed to delete it. The problem is, for some reason, I can't get Word and Excel working from the NT installation. They actually run, and I can do stuff, and everything is fine... until I try to save or load. For instance, when I've got the "Open file" dialogue open in Word, if I try and rename a file, I get errors like: Cannot rename '...': The drive that this file or folder is stored on does not allow long file names or names containing blanks or any of the following characters.... When I try and load a file from Word, I get errors like: The document name or path is not valid. It may contain characters which are not part of the current language of the operating system. Try renaming the file or opening it with the language of the system set to the language used when the file was created. Excel seems to find files, but complains that it doesn't understand them. Notepad loads files, but they turn to semi-gibberish. All of this happens with simple filenames like "abcdefg.txt", and it happens to files living in my home directory on an e2fs filesystem, so it doesn't seem to be a problem with the ntfs driver. My current guess is that it is _something_ to do with the character set or language, but I don't know how to fix it! I'm not using any extended character set or non-English language. Anybody have an idea? I haven't investigated the problem in huge detail yet, in the hope that somebody else knows the symptom at this level. :) Thanks, Richard. -- Richard Lovejoy. Richard.Lovejoy@ericsson.com.au +61 3 9301 6284 Send me mail with "Public key" as the subject for an automated reply. GPG fingerprint: 7667 9679 6BF9 DB73 96D6 54FC 9A16 E57E 292E 05AD
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 09:54:42 +1100, Richard Lovejoy <Richard.Lovejoy@ericsson.com.au> wrote:> >For instance, when I've got the "Open file" dialogue open in >Word, if I try and rename a file, I get errors like: > Cannot rename '...': The drive that this file or folder is stored on > does not allow long file names or names containing blanks or any of > the following characters....Do you have a NTFS partition ? If yes, this is probably a lack of OS support. It's said often that Linux does not support reliably writing to a NTFS partition, for example. In this case, check for updates on the Linux side.>When I try and load a file from Word, I get errors like: > The document name or path is not valid. It may contain characters > which are not part of the current language of the operating system. > Try renaming the file or opening it with the language of the system > set to the language used when the file was created. > >Excel seems to find files, but complains that it doesn't understand >them. Notepad loads files, but they turn to semi-gibberish.Maybe you have an old version of Wine; this Notepad problem was fixed a few months ago I think.>All of this happens with simple filenames like "abcdefg.txt", >and it happens to files living in my home directory on an e2fs >filesystem, so it doesn't seem to be a problem with the ntfs driver.Including the file save problem ? If yes, try to use more builtin libraries (DllOverrides in the ~/.wine/config file). All system libraries under NT are fully Unicode and use NTsecurity, and Wine is not very conformant here.Most NT system utilities, even simple ones, will not work correctly. Gerard