Wine Help on Suse 9

Hello I installed Suse a little while ago and my windows XP is really messed up. So i decide to use Suse for a little bit. I installed wine a minuet ago and now i dont know what to do. I want to run a game called gunbound. it is located at C:\Program Files\Softnyx\Gunbound\Gunbound.exe. How do i like get wine to work. I am so lost. Anyhelp would be grateful.

When i run the command wine program C:\\Program\ Files\\Softnyx\\Gunbound\\Gunbound.exe it says

Warning: the specified Windows directory L"C:\\Windows" is not accessible.
Warning: the specified System directory L"C:\\Windows\\System" is not accessible

what do i do?

not sure about running wine on an existing windows installation over an ntfs filesystem. could be dangerous, don't know really as i myself am not running an NT based kernel windows os. but writing to an ntfs partition from linux is very dangerous and not supported (or supported but with very heavy restrictions on what can be written to it). some windows programs will invariably want to write to that ntfs partition and i don't know how or if wine is mature enough to use windows's native ntfs.sys driver. if you're going to run wine, in your case, it makes more sense to me for you to follow the recommended set up of wine which is to create a fake c: drive in your user's home directory. you really need to go to http://www.winehq.com/site/documentation and read the wine user's guide and you can go to http://www.frankscorner.org for tuts on installing and running programs and for a listing of known programs that work.

Try this: delete your hidden .wine directory inside your home directory. WARNING!! You will have to reinstall applications you have installed using wine if you delete .wine directory!!! When you are done open console and run this command: wineprefixcreate

It creates new .wine directory inside your home dircetory and prepares other stuff for wine. It worked for me and now I can run Painter 5.5.

These problems appear when upgrading from "old" versions of Wine, because configurations are not compatible between new and old versions and the Wine installer does not fix those for you.

I was just going to say thanks that worked for my problem I had... I googled "specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible" and this thread with your reply was about 3 or 4 down on the page but I just tried it and it fixed my problem.

I think the issue for me was I loaded winesetup and then tried loading wine and they weren't pointing at the same c:\\windows dirs. I am using Ubuntu 5.10 and for some reason (i guess a conflict) I couldn't load winesetup and wine at the same time... I removed the winesetup and installed only wine then deleted the ~/.wine dir and ran wineprefixcreate and things work great now... Thanks again