I recently installed wine, and was using it succesfully yesterday to run a spice cad problem I have on my windows drives aclled swcadiii.exe. But now I cant get it to work. For my windows files I have 2 drives, C and D. D is my windows boot drive with sytem and system32 folders. I have these mounted in my linux as /mnt/windows/D and /mnt/windows/D When I go into the wine configuration tool I can map C to /mnt/windows/C, and I can map D into /mnt/windows/D. I hit the Apply button, and I hit the OK button. When I use wine to run my swcadiii.exe program I get not accessible and file not found errors. When I go back into the wine configuration tool I see that my D drive mapping has not been saved. How do I make changes the drive assignments I make permanent ?
Robert McLean <robert.mclean1@sympatico.ca> wrote:> When I go into the wine configuration tool I can map C to > /mnt/windows/C, and I can map D into /mnt/windows/D. I hit the Apply > button, and I hit the OK button. When I use wine to run my > swcadiii.exe program I get not accessible and file not found errors. > When I go back into the wine configuration tool I see that my D drive > mapping has not been saved. How do I make changes the drive > assignments I make permanent ?Create the symlinks under $WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/ by hand. Daniel
Daniel Skorka wrote:> Robert McLean <robert.mclean1@sympatico.ca> wrote: > > When I go into the wine configuration tool I can map C to > > /mnt/windows/C, and I can map D into /mnt/windows/D. I hit the Apply > > button, and I hit the OK button. When I use wine to run my > > swcadiii.exe program I get not accessible and file not found errors. > > When I go back into the wine configuration tool I see that my D drive > > mapping has not been saved. How do I make changes the drive > > assignments I make permanent ? > > Create the symlinks under $WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/ by hand. > > DanielDaniel, thanks for the reply. But now for the really dumb questions. What is $WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/ ? I guessed it was a directory or configuration file, but I cant find it searching with file manager. Is it something else entirely ? Also, is this what everybody else who uses Wine had to do ? Why doesnt the Wine Configuration tool work ? Robert.
Robert McLean wrote:> Daniel Skorka wrote: > > Robert McLean <robert.mclean1@sympatico.ca> wrote: > > > When I go into the wine configuration tool I can map C to > > > /mnt/windows/C, and I can map D into /mnt/windows/D. I hit the Apply > > > button, and I hit the OK button. When I use wine to run my > > > swcadiii.exe program I get not accessible and file not found errors. > > > When I go back into the wine configuration tool I see that my D drive > > > mapping has not been saved. How do I make changes the drive > > > assignments I make permanent ? > > > > Create the symlinks under $WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/ by hand. > > > > Daniel > > Daniel, thanks for the reply. But now for the really dumb questions. > What is $WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/ ? I guessed it was a directory or > configuration file, but I cant find it searching with file manager. Is > it something else entirely ? >> Also, is this what everybody else who uses Wine had to do ? Why doesnt > the Wine Configuration tool work ? > > Robert.I may have solved my problem. I looks like if I log in as regular user Bob, the drives map correctly, and stay that way. If I log in as root, then it wont work right. So I just have to remember to log in as Bob, and at least one of my windows apps is now working quite well under Wine. (There are others with issues I am putting in other threads) Thanks