Hi all, I know this isn't really pressing ;) but still. I tried to get a windows prog (EAC) running in Wine. It always failed for me (hang/crash while trying to access cd-rom) like it did for many other Gentooers. Users from other distributions seemed to have much less trouble getting it to work. It turned out that it was the mount point perms. Gentoo defaults to 700, Ubuntu to 644 (quite strange for a dir, anyway - it's hearsay, I've not seen Ubuntu myself yet) it seems. Anyway, using 755 Wine apps wanting to access cd-roms work like a charm. Would 755 be ok for Gentoo? It doesn't seem a security issue to me and it would make things easier for at least a few users it seems. Cheers Sebastian
so wine has problems if the mount point has 700 perms *before* the point has been mounted ? once you mount something, the permissions on the original mount point have no meaning # ls -ld /mnt/cdrom drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Aug 8 2005 /mnt/cdrom # mount /mnt/cdrom/ # ls -ld /mnt/cdrom dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Dec 31 1969 /mnt/cdrom
Hello SpanKY, agreed, but EAC for example is for extracting audio off audio CDs. As you know audio CDs, like DVDs, don't get mounted before ripping (allthough you can in fact of course mound a DVD). So when I put an audio cd into the drive, it doesn't get mounted and the permissions stay the same (700) -> Wine app hangs. Thanks for your reply Sebastian
In case you want to try you can grab http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ from here. Install/unzip it, run 'wine path/to/EAC.exe', cancel the wizard, hit F9, go the the Interface tab, select "Native Win32 interface", restart EAC (beware it will reset itself to ASPI when it hangs). Sebastian
i know about EAC, i used to use it in windows
is this still valid currently? :/
Hello Pacho, I don't think so. Closing :-) Regards, Sebastian
