Bernard Victor wrote:

>I am running Mandrake 7.2, but would like to upgrade to 8.2, which I presume
>should be better. However when I tried to do an upgrade, I lost all my Wine
>settings. I need to run Wine, so I can use a couple of Windows applications,
>which  do not appear to yet have Linux equivalents. They are Quicken and
>Agent.
>
>It appears that Wine now stores its config files in a different location and
>uses a different syntax. Is this correct, or can I still use my old
>configure file.
>
>I also lost read/write access to my windows partition except when logged on
>as root. There did not appear to be an easy way of changing permissions, but
>perhaps I could not find it. I tried editing my fstab file but then go
>errors on boot up. Again can I preserve my present fstab file, or is there
>an easy way of giving users full access to my windows partition.
>
>I hope someone can find the time to answer these queries, or perhaps the
>only interest is in people using versions 8 onwards.
>Bernard Victor
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I never use Wine before so I can't answer that question, but if you lose 
read/write access to your windows partition, you can fix it by setting 
the correct permission to the mount point (/mnt/windows for example)

Vinh N. Pham



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