I can not run Picasa (and for that matter Wine) when my home folder is mounted using smbfs/cifs and the backend server is Samba v3.3. The problem appears to be related to the symbolic links in the ~/.google/ picasa/3.0/dosdevices folder where the file names include the colon ":", eg. c:, d:, d::, etc. This wasn't problem in past when my home folder was NFS mounted.
The server is Fedora 11 running Samba 3.3 and my workstation is running Ubuntu Karmic Koala (latest). When I run picasa from the command line I get the following errors: ln: creating symbolic link `/home/users/rwsmith/.google/picasa/3.0/ dosdevices/c:': No such file or directory ln: creating symbolic link `/home/users/rwsmith/.google/picasa/3.0/ dosdevices/z:': No such file or directory When I do a ls -l on ~/.google/picasa/3.0/dosdevices/ from my workstation I get: ls: cannot read symbolic link z:: No such file or directory ls: cannot read symbolic link c:: No such file or directory total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 rwsmith rwsmith 10 2009-06-20 12:09 c: lrwxrwxrwx 1 rwsmith rwsmith 1 2009-06-20 12:09 z: When I do a ls -l on ~/.google/picasa/3.0/dosdevices from the Samba server I get: lrwxrwxrwx 1 rwsmith rwsmith 10 2009-06-20 12:09 c: -> ../drive_c lrwxrwxrwx 1 rwsmith rwsmith 1 2009-06-20 12:09 z: -> / I know that the colon ":" is one of seven special characters in Windows and Samba. The client cifs implementation (version 1.12) is supposed to implement the option "nomapchars" which should not map any of the seven special characters but it does not seem to be working on my client. Or the problem is with the server. I have spent hours looking at how to resolve this problem to no avail. Perhaps by chance the Google programmers have a workaround which they can share. IMHO, wine is not such a great platform to use for porting Windows applications to Linux--I always have to fallback to virtualization 'cuz i need those missing feautes. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
