[Bug 1123] New: - User run-time cannot use "C:\Windows\Desktop" (No permissions)

http://bugs.winehq.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1123

Summary: User run-time cannot use "C:\Windows\Desktop" (No
                    permissions)
           Product: Wine
           Version: 20010112
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: wine-loader
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

Discovery proceess:
After install of "wine-20021007.i386.rpm" the root ID cannot run wine. Winesetup
documentation says "be user" for wine run-time. OK, login as user, run "wine
winword". Oops, need full directory string. do that, and when I do that, I get a
nasty error, "Cannot create C:\Windows\Desktop". OK, su - root, and ls -l | grep
Desktop" (in C:/Windows directory) to get permission list of "drwxr-xr-x ... 
Desktop". Vain attempt of "chmod 777 Desktop" because windows directory has
insufficient permission structure for this situation.

Workaround:
Realizeing that problem can be circumvented if root can run wine, I "cp -R
/home/user/.wine /root" (created by the user ID earlier, above). Now I execute
"wine winword.exe" (in the C:\Program Files\microsoft office directory, and all
works well.(That is until I try to run spelling check, Seems the file directory
linkages do not work.Cannot find the dll where expected.)

Concerns: 
1.User ID cannot ever have permissions needed in win98 file structure!
2.Process for finding windows PATH in wine applications is insufficient for the
task.
3.When looking for a file to open (in winword.exe), I get the directory, but
need to type in the <directory name>*.doc to move to that directory. Typical
Microsoft double click on directory to change directory tries to open directory
file for editing.

Kudo's:
I also ran a doc file with an jpeg image in it. Winword (97) worked very well.
Wine winword.exe saves files OK too.

Michael F. Winthrop
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