Partition problem

[Pixxxel]

Hi!
I am a noob linux user and i have a question, and if you know the answer, please write down step by step what i need to do and sorry if im saying noob things
So, i have windows xp and opensuse 10.3 on my pc. I have 3 partitions, 2 on /windows and one for linux. My problem is that i cant launch windows programs which are on the windows partition with wine. I think that the problem is that those partitions is under root permission but i cant change it to user. For the first time i couldt even move files to windows partitions from linux. That problem solved my friend, but now when i move files still i got a message: could not change permissions... If anybody can help, please just write down what i need to do step by step, i am noob

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

All Regular Users have read access to Windows Partitions by default and you have to instal ntfs-3g to enable NTFS write access.

Open Terminal/Konsole and execute this

df -h
cat /etc/fstab

Post output here.

Are you trying to run Programs through Wine that are installed in Windows OS?

[Pixxxel]

Pixel@localhost:~> df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 15G 3.7G 11G 26% /
udev 248M 76K 248M 1% /dev
/dev/sda1 41G 24G 17G 60% /windows/C
/dev/sda5 55G 39G 17G 71% /windows/D
Pixel@localhost:~> cat /etc/fstab
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_HITACHI_HTS5416_SB2D41EVH1U4JS-part6 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_HITACHI_HTS5416_SB2D41EVH1U4JS-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g users,gid=users 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_HITACHI_HTS5416_SB2D41EVH1U4JS-part5 /windows/D ntfs-3g user,users,gid=users 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_HITACHI_HTS5416_SB2D41EVH1U4JS-part7 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0


Yes, the programs are installed in windows, but i tried to start non-installed programs too (non-insalled = copy/paste program), and none of them are working.

[devils casper]

Log in as root and open /etc/fstab file. Set umask value to zero in these two lines :

/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_HITACHI_HTS5416_SB2D41EVH1U4JS-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g  defaults,umask=0  0 0
 /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_HITACHI_HTS5416_SB2D41EVH1U4JS-part5 /windows/D ntfs-3g defaults,umask=0  0 0

Save file and execute mount -a command. All users will have read/write access in Windows Partitions ( /windows/C and /windows/D ).

I would suggest you to check this Wine User Guide.

[Pixxxel]

these two lines look like this:

/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_HITACHI_HTS5416_SB2D41EVH1U4JS-part1 /windows/C           ntfs-3g    users,gid=users                                        0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_HITACHI_HTS5416_SB2D41EVH1U4JS-part5 /windows/D           ntfs-3g    user,users,gid=users                                        0

so you say just delete "users,gid=users" and write there that umask?

after in console execute mount command?

(sry im totally noob ^^ )

[devils casper]

Yes. Replace users,gid=users 0 0 with defaults,umask=0 0 0.
Save file and execute mount -a command in Terminal/Konsole.

[Pixxxel]

So here's the situation:
I opened fstab, changed those lines to defaults, umask=0 0 0.
Started Konsole, wrote mount -a command after rebooted the system.
Now i dont get the "Could not change permission..." message but still cant launch that program with wine. Is that possible that my wine has problems?

[devils casper]

Could you please explian a bit more? How are you trying to run Windows Packages with wine? What commands are you executing?

[Pixxxel]

I open Konsole and write:
wine /windows/D/Program\ Files/......exe
After that i see a lot of commands and things running down in console and the program(game) doesnt start, but it should start, because my friend can run it on his opensuse.

[Pixxxel]

I tried to run it like root too, but the same problem.