wine users - Jul 2009 - wine: /intended/PREFIXdirectory/not owned by you

I am attempting to create a folder for my wineprefixes on my external hard disk.
The plan is to symlink to that location from inside my user folder (ie.
~/.wine/PREFIXES -> $iomega/.wineprefixes)
For reference:
$iomega=/media/Iomega_HDD
This is a 400GB external drive with a single NTFS partition.

The plan is to create folders for all my WINEPREFIXes at $iomega/.wineprefixes
(Example: $iomega/.wineprefixes/Blizzard)

I keep getting the following error: wine: /media/Iomega_HDD/.wineprefixes is not
owned by you

Okay, I figure, I'll make sure it's owned by me.

chown -R indubitableness.users $iomega/.wineprefixes

No go. Same error. Why is this happening? I'm seeing some posts that seem to
imply that maybe wine just simply doesn't support making Prefixes outside of
one's user folder. I really hope this isn't the case as I keep losing
all my installed games every time I break my linux installs (every time I try
some new unfamiliar advanced thing I have no qualifications for messing around
with) and putting my prefixes on my back up drive would be the perfect solution.

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:51 AM,
Indubitableness<wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> I am attempting to create a folder for my wineprefixes on my external hard
disk. The plan is to symlink to that location from inside my user folder (ie.
~/.wine/PREFIXES -> $iomega/.wineprefixes)
> For reference:
> $iomega=/media/Iomega_HDD
> This is a 400GB external drive with a single NTFS partition.
>
> The plan is to create folders for all my WINEPREFIXes at
$iomega/.wineprefixes
> (Example: $iomega/.wineprefixes/Blizzard)
>
> I keep getting the following error: wine: /media/Iomega_HDD/.wineprefixes
is not owned by you
>
> Okay, I figure, I'll make sure it's owned by me.
>
> chown -R indubitableness.users $iomega/.wineprefixes
>
> No go. Same error. Why is this happening? I'm seeing some posts that
seem to imply that maybe wine just simply doesn't support making Prefixes
outside of one's user folder. I really hope this isn't the case as I
keep losing all my installed games every time I break my linux installs (every
time I try some new unfamiliar advanced thing I have no qualifications for
messing around with) and putting my prefixes on my back up drive would be the
perfect solution.
Wine doesn't limit prefixes to just your home folder. It's not the
cause of your problems, but you shouldn't be using an NTFS partition
for wine, it can cause problems.

Is the partition mounted noexec?

-- 
-Austin

This is how the partition is mounted. This is from the fstab

/dev/sdb1        /media/Iomega_HDD ntfs-3g     umask=000        1   0

I also thought maybe that NTFS would cause problems, but in this case I
don't have a lot of choice. This is a shared backup drive for windows and
linux and I am unwilling to shrink it and make further partitions, although I
could.

I've found a different solution. I'm making wine prefixes and backing
them up on this drive as tar.gz files. It's still not what I wanted to do,
but it's perfectly viable. If anyone knows why I'm getting this error I
would still love to find out and would appreciate the help but it's no
longer vitally important for my plan.

Oh and Thank you Austin.

Just to be sure, what does ls -al $iomega show?

--
-Austin

Indubitableness wrote:
>  ~/.wine/PREFIXES -> $iomega/.wineprefixes
You can't do that. WINEPREFIX have to point to the real directory. This is
hard-coded requirement.

You can always put your "virtual c:" drive where you want to. And if
it's NTFS be ready for all sorts of issues.