On Jun 21, 7:28 pm, DanKegel <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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). > > That's very interesting. I've posted a note to wine-devel to let them > know about the problem. Maybe we can find a workaround > (like having wine fall back to using underscores instead of colons).
Please make sure the server has the CIFS Unix Extensions turned on. I hear that is required for both symlinks and for filenames containing colons. Also make sure you're mounting with cifs rather than smbfs. - Dan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
