[solved]the specified Windows directory is not accessible

[quick30]

I installed wine some days ago from the ubuntu repo's. Unfortunately it doesn't works for me yet.

I start the configuration with the following command:

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user@machine:~$ winecfg
Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible.
Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not accessible.
Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible.
Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not accessible.

Then the wine windows comes up and i can work.

When i go to the stations tab and i see:
c: /media/cdrom0
d: /media/cdrom0
z: /

I think the c: setting is wrong. I try to chang it but then some other errors come up:

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err:winecfg:load_drives GetVolumeInformation() for 'C:\' failed, setting serial to 0
err:winecfg:load_drives GetVolumeInformation() for 'D:\' failed, setting serial to 0
err:shell:SHGetFolderPathW Failed to create directory L"c:\\windows\\profiles\\user\\Desktop".

What is wrong??

thanks for any reply. I can't seem to find a answer in the user manual or wiki.

[austin987]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 3:29 PM, quick30 <[email protected]> wrote:

I installed wine some days ago from the ubuntu repo's. Unfortunately it doesn't works for me yet.

I start the configuration with the following command:

Code:
user@machine:~$ winecfg
Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible.
Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not accessible.
Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible.
Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not accessible.


Then the wine windows comes up and i can work.

When i go to the stations tab and i see:
c: /media/cdrom0
d: /media/cdrom0
z: /

I think the c: setting is wrong. I try to chang it but then some other errors come up:

Code:
err:winecfg:load_drives GetVolumeInformation() for 'C:\' failed, setting serial to 0
err:winecfg:load_drives GetVolumeInformation() for 'D:\' failed, setting serial to 0
errSHGetFolderPathW Failed to create directory L"c:\\windows\\profiles\\user\\Desktop".



What is wrong??

thanks for any reply. I can't seem to find a answer in the user manual or wiki.

Did you run wine as root?

[vitamin]

I installed wine some days ago from the ubuntu repo's. Unfortunately it doesn't works for me yet.

I start the configuration with the following command:

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user@machine:~$ winecfg
Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible.
Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not accessible.
Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible.
Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not accessible.

Remove ~/.wine directory, verify it is gone and run Wine as a normal user _ONLY_.

[quick30]

I tried to run it as a user; not a superuser (or root).
I think i only had a terminal open to make it possible to change some settings to a directory in order to make it accessible to all users who belong to the group "games". Come to think of it I must have run winecfg in the root terminal in stead of a normal user terminal.

So now i deleted the ~.wine directory. After that i ran wine as user ONLY.
Immediately after i started the command an new wine directory is made. I think my problems are solved because i don't get any of the errors of before.
thanks people! a stressfull time has ended.