wine users - Sep 2008 - Cannot open file in NTFS filesystem on Ubuntu Hardy Heron

I am trying to run an old version of Family Tree Maker for Windows.  I got it
working on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, but when I switched to Hard Heron it stopped
working.

Specifically when I use the file open dialog to select the database to open I am
able to navigate through the Unix directory tree down to the file, but when I
request the application to open the selected file I get an error message
"Cannot find file".  I look in the ftw.ini file, where the application
saves the path to the most recently opened file and the path is correct.  The
application just cannot open the file using that path.  I tried two different
routes to the file:  tracing down from the mount point of the NTFS file system
containing the file, and also following a soft link from my home directory over
to the folder containing the file on the NTFS file system.  The only way I can
open the file is to copy it over to my linux home directory.  I would prefer to
share a single copy of the database between Windows and Linux so I do not have
to keep copying it back and forth to keep it in synch.

Any ideas of why opening a file on an NTFS file system would not work on Hardy
Heron?

> Any ideas of why opening a file on an NTFS file system would not work on
Hardy Heron?

Offhand, I can think of two ntfs-g driver (not Wine) issues that could cause
this:

1. the partition is mounted "noexec" (the default)
2. the app requires shared writable mmap, support for which wasn't added to
the Linux kernel until 2.6.26.

If it's the first, editing your /etc/fstab to add "exec" to the
end of the mount options for the partition in question should solve the problem.
If it's the second, your solution is to upgrade to a kernel that supports
shared writable mmap.

jcobban3 wrote:
> Perhaps I need to collect more documentation.  Should I enable some of the
Wine debug options to understand why this application is unable to open the
file?
Run your program from the terminal and post everything you see.