MTA SA will not install

JamesSmith1066 · Post by **JamesSmith1066** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 1:53 pm

I tried to install MTA SA and vcredist.exe I got a message saying unable to find volume for file extraction Please verify that you have proper pemissions.
I am logged in as Root on my Debian VPS. Can anyone help me please???

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 2:11 pm

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:53 AM, JamesSmith1066
<[email protected]> wrote:

I tried to install MTA SA and vcredist.exe I got a message saying unable to find volume for file extraction Please verify
that you have proper pemissions.

Log in a a regular user and use Winetricks to install the appropriate runtimes.

I am logged in as Root on my Debian VPS. Can anyone help me please???

Don't do that! Root and Wine do not mix well.

James

JamesSmith1066 · Post by **JamesSmith1066** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 2:34 pm

jjmckenzie wrote:On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:53 AM, JamesSmith1066
<[email protected]> wrote:
I tried to install MTA SA and vcredist.exe I got a message saying unable to find volume for file extraction Please verify
that you have proper pemissions.
Log in a a regular user and use Winetricks to install the appropriate runtimes.

I am logged in as Root on my Debian VPS. Can anyone help me please???
Don't do that! Root and Wine do not mix well.

James

OK thanks but my server is VPS it logs me in as root as standard idk how to do it any other way. am using VNC to connect via remote to the server and I also use PuTTy. Thanks for the advise i'll try to sort it

JamesSmith1066 · Post by **JamesSmith1066** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 7:29 pm

JamesSmith1066 wrote:
jjmckenzie wrote:On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:53 AM, JamesSmith1066
<[email protected]> wrote:
I tried to install MTA SA and vcredist.exe I got a message saying unable to find volume for file extraction Please verify
that you have proper pemissions.
Log in a a regular user and use Winetricks to install the appropriate runtimes.

I am logged in as Root on my Debian VPS. Can anyone help me please???
Don't do that! Root and Wine do not mix well.

James
OK thanks but my server is VPS it logs me in as root as standard idk how to do it any other way. am using VNC to connect via remote to the server and I also use PuTTy. Thanks for the advise i'll try to sort it

i managed to login as an admin user but still have the same issue

Anyone got any idea's what is wrong?

JamesSmith1066 · Post by **JamesSmith1066** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 7:44 pm

JamesSmith1066 wrote:
jjmckenzie wrote:On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:53 AM, JamesSmith1066
<[email protected]> wrote:
I tried to install MTA SA and vcredist.exe I got a message saying unable to find volume for file extraction Please verify
that you have proper pemissions.
Log in a a regular user and use Winetricks to install the appropriate runtimes.

I am logged in as Root on my Debian VPS. Can anyone help me please???
Don't do that! Root and Wine do not mix well.

James
OK thanks but my server is VPS it logs me in as root as standard idk how to do it any other way. am using VNC to connect via remote to the server and I also use PuTTy. Thanks for the advise i'll try to sort it

Sorry what is wineTricks?

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 9:19 am

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:44 PM, JamesSmith1066
<[email protected]> wrote:

JamesSmith1066 wrote:
jjmckenzie wrote:
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:53 AM, JamesSmith1066
<[email protected]> wrote:
Log in a a regular user and use Winetricks to install the appropriate runtimes.

Don't do that! Root and Wine do not mix well.

James
OK thanks but my server is VPS it logs me in as root as standard idk how to do it any other way. am using VNC to connect via remote to the server and I also use PuTTy. Thanks for the advise i'll try to sort it
Sorry what is wineTricks?

You need to fix VPS so that it NEVER logs you in as root. Google
might help greatly in resolving this. That is a major security issue
and quite possibly will break Wine.

winetricks: http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks.

James