http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12879
--- Comment #5 from Lei Zhang thestig@google.com 2008-05-12 16:03:00 --- Which arial.exe are you trying to install? I tried installing arial32.exe [1] on NFS and that worked for me.
FYI, my nfs mount options are: rw,nosuid,tcp,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,intr,bg
[1] http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/arial32.exe