Hi im running arch and am trying to get wine running properly on my normal useracount. When i try to run winecfg i keep getting this error saying "wine: '/home/me' is not owned by you, refusing to create a configuration directory there". I have serched the forms for the past hour or so and for the most part peopel have been able to resolve it with chown and or chmod. Iv done bolth and have come up empty so I thought it might have been a fstab problem so I double checked my settings and it checks out.

/dev/sda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda7 /boot ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/sda8 / ext4 defaults 0 0
/dev/sda5 /home ntfs-3g auto,umask=0,users,rw 0 0

I am using a ntfs drive for my home directory because i have a windows partition that I sare it with for documents. odd thing is when i change the permissions on my home directory they dont change! ill chown -R me /home/me then check files in my home directory and they are still owned by root though I can still modify them add/delet them. Idk iv been verry aggrivaited by this today. Iv uninstalled wine through pacman and reinstalled it allready with no luck.

Sorry this kinda turned into a rant help is much appreciated.

try using UserMapping http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-manual/#7 then chown, chmod.


it seems you can't really change the ownerships in that setup

thank you reading now

Absolutely no luck on getting the permissions set right so I made a symbolic link to a directory on a ext drive problem solved (for now) thanks again for your help im not shure what exactly the problem is probbobly just an issue with ntfs and sence the symbolic link works its not wine. Thank you again for yout time and help. This is my first thread on the forms thanks for the responds.

i was going to advice to define WINEPREFIX in some place else where you cat get better permissions. symbolic link works, too. i hope ntfs won't compline about it