Bill Preece wrote:
> Which version of Office are you trying to Load?
> I doubt you will get 2000 to work with wine.
> You could under win4lin or vmware.
>
> Also if it is the new XP office if you look in your wine setting to where is
> says
> >"Filesystem" = "win95"
> Xp will not run under WIN95 or Win95 emulation!!!!!!! So this setting would
> not work.
>
> >> > 1. Warning: the temporary directory '/mnt/c/temp' (specified in wine
> >> > configuration file) is not writeable.
> >>
> >> umount /mnt/c;chmod 777 /mnt/c;mount /mnt/c
> >>
> >
> >I tried this but the permissions are still set as drwxrwxr-x 21 root
> root
> >for the /mnt/c and all the dirs under it. And when I try to winword.exe
> from it's
> >directory I get the following.
> >bash: ./winword.exe: Permission denied
> >
> >>
> >> > 2. Invalid path 'c:\windows\Profiles\Administrator' for profile
> >> > directory: does not exist - I'm not sure what wine is looking for
> >> here.
> >> > I didn't know windows had a Profiles\Administrator directory.
>
> It does not have a c:\windows\Profiles\Administrator directory unless you
> are using 2000 or NT 4.0 sp3 and up.
> There is a c:\windows\Profiles\Username\personal
>
> >> vim /etc/wine/wine.conf (if it exists, or) ~/.wine/config
> >
>
> >Couldn't find the /etc/wine/wine.conf so changed the one in ~/.wine/config
> >> change profile to your profiles folder if it exists,
> >> or /mnt/c/windows if it doesn't ..
> >>
> >> > 3. Warning: could not find wine config [Drive x] entry for current
> >> > working directory /home/mchester; starting in windows directory. I
> >> have
> >>
> >> see above to locate wine.conf add an entry with a drive letter for
> >> your home directory.
> >
> >I found the following in the ~/.wine/config
> >[Drive F]
> >"Path" = "${HOME}"
> >"Type" = "network"
> >"Label" = "Home"
> >"Filesystem" = "win95"
> >Is this what you were talking about? Should this be changed to not be
> network
> >drive or is does it need to be a network drive?
>
> I myself am not sure on this but I would not think it would be considered a
> network drive
> unless it is a shared drive or directory.
>
> >> > wine still says it can't find it.
> >> >
> >>
> >> try changing the wine.conf in /etc/wine
> >
> >can't find a /etc/wine.conf file
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> > One other question. When I start word from my home dir with the
> >> command.
> >> >
> >> > wine "/mnt/c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/winword.exe"
> >> > Word has problems with the path for it's dot files. Word says it
> >> can't
> >>
> >> That should work, maybe you should cd into that folder and run
> >> winword .. I created shell scripts to cd into the working directory
> >> before executing an app ..
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> > find them. Should I be starting word from a different dir or is
> >> there
> >> > some path I need to setup?
> >> >
> >> > I have not been able to find any answers to these questions on Wines
> >> > page or google. Maybe it was my search criteria.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks in advance for your help.
> >> > Mike M.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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I'm running Office 97. I have chagned all the win95 to vfat in the wine.conf
Hope this doesn't cause any problems But I'm still having the write to
/mnt/c/temp problem.
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