On Friday 05 April 2002 04:19 pm, you wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 04:03:05PM -0600, Rodney G. Garayt wrote:
> > I'm still trying to understand some of the particularities of the Linux
> > file system - how it's organized and in particular what happens when
> > installing software. I'm very familiar with windows but haven't gotten
> > the hang of it on Linux yet. Your response leads me to this question:
> > If a "fake windows partition in your /home/Rodney/ directory" gets
> > created, does that mean that only Rodney will be able to access it? Will
> > other users be able to access it also?
>
> Wine can map Windows drive letters to linux directories. For example,
> CodeWeavers CrossOver Office v1.0.0 set up the following drive mappings
> by default on my Red Hat 7.3 beta machine:
>
> C: fake_windows (${HOME}/cxoffice/dotwine/cxoffice/fake_windows)
> M: /mnt/cdrom
> X: /tmp
> Y: ${HOME}
> Z: /
Which leads me to wonder if a Windows virus will be allowed to play havoc
with anything in the ~/ directory, or anything subordinate to it. Anybody
know? If you don't map the ~/ directory to a drive, and say, create
~/windowshome , could it still get to the ~/ directory?
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