Wine: linux directory to Windows drive letter mapping.

Gain Paolo Mureddu gmureddu at prodigy.net.mx
Thu Jan 27 08:25:45 UTC 2005


Matt Morgan wrote:

>On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:20:48 -0500, Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomo at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>I followed the instructions in section 5.4 of
>>
>>http://www.winehq.com/site/docs/wine-user/config-drive-main
>>
>>to try to get my /home/morganm/pub directory mapped to P: in wine. Like this:
>>------
>>[morganm at morganm_fc3 dosdevices]$ ln -s ~/pub p:
>>[morganm at morganm_fc3 dosdevices]$ ls -l
>>total 8
>>lrwxrwxrwx  1     500          500 10 Dec 13 17:44 c: -> ../drive_c
>>lrwxrwxrwx  1 morganm Domain Users 17 Jan 26 14:19 p: -> /home/morganm/pub
>>lrwxrwxrwx  1     500          500  1 Dec 13 17:44 z: -> /
>>------
>>(I actually have a shared drive mounted there, and on our Windows
>>computers we call that drive P:, so this would serve to emulate our
>>Windows setup and mean that config files written for windows will work
>>under wine). But when I run notepad.exe under wine, the P: drive
>>doesn't show up in file-open and file-save dialogs. Anybody know what
>>I'm doing wrong?
>>    
>>
>
>Never mind. I had a problem with the folder I was linking to (it's
>actually called "public" :-)). Sorry for the list noise.
>
>  
>
Just a note on Wine... Remember you can set up any directory (or 
mountpoint) on the filesystem and map it as a drive to be seen as a 
Windows drive letter in your ~/.wine/config (or ~/.transgaming, 
~/.cxoffice, etc)
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