wine users - Mar 2007 - Wine with CIFS home directory

I fixed this by doing the following (as root):

mkdir /wine
env WINEPREFIX=/wine

ddoctor@kamikazeperverts.com wrote:
> How do I get wine to run from somewhere else?
'man wine', look for WINEPREFIX
> [samplesurgeon@camembert ~]$ winecfg
> wine: creating configuration directory
'/home/samplesurgeon/.wine'...
> ln: creating symbolic link
> `/home/samplesurgeon/.wine-TI6iMN/dosdevices/c:' to `../drive_c':
> Operation not supported
> wine: wineprefixcreate failed while creating
> '/home/samplesurgeon/.wine'.
> 
> I don't even really understand why the windows c drive would be mounted
> within /home/user anyway - wouldn't it make sense to put it in, eg
> /wine or /drive_c - somewhere NOT user-specific. After all - Linux
> programs run from /bin, not /home/username/bin
Because in the setup you propose, an ordinary user wouldn't be able to
install programs just like that. Also, many windows programs expect
write permissions to their own directory. In your setup, this would
require either ACLs or really awkward constructs. It is possible, it
just doesn't make sense for most of the wine users.

Daniel

I have Single Sign On at my home network - my linux home directories
are mounted from my Win2k fileserver. I try to run winecfg and get the
below error, obviously because CIFS and NTFS doesn't support symlinks.

How do I get wine to run from somewhere else?

[samplesurgeon@camembert ~]$ winecfg
wine: creating configuration directory '/home/samplesurgeon/.wine'...
ln: creating symbolic link
`/home/samplesurgeon/.wine-TI6iMN/dosdevices/c:' to `../drive_c':
Operation not supported
wine: wineprefixcreate failed while creating
'/home/samplesurgeon/.wine'.


I don't even really understand why the windows c drive would be mounted
within /home/user anyway - wouldn't it make sense to put it in, eg
/wine or /drive_c - somewhere NOT user-specific. After all - Linux
programs run from /bin, not /home/username/bin

I run Fedora 5 and installed from the RPM on Fedora Extras.