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

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