This is only one of the many reason that I am no fan of wine. I would much prefer that these symbolic links not reside in the directory space. Thanks for makeing wine-devel aware of this problem. Supposedly the Unix Extensions in Samba were to permit the use of the seven reserved characters however this does not seem to be working for me. When I get a chance I will attempt to enable debugging of the session setup to verify if the unix extensions are beng negotiated and which capabilities (see http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/UNIX_Extensions). This is my home network where I run three Samba+LDAP servers supporting Linux, Windows and OSX for my family. CIFS has been the default for the past couple of releases of Ubuntu and I prefer CIFS over NFS as I will move between workstations without logging out. I also use pam_mount.so to mount my personal home directory when I log in on any of the Linux computers. Bob --bs On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:28 PM, DanKegel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Jun 20, 11:24 am, Bob Smith <[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). > > Is this your personal network, or is some organization out there > actually > using cifs for mounting linux home directories? cifs hasn't been > commonly used for home directories in the past, to my knowledge. > - Dan > > > > -- Robert W. Smith BISLink Internet Service --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
