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  From: Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
  To  : <hammer@epc.net.au>
  Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 13:28:58 +1030 (CST)

Re: A quick Question re win4lin

I would imagine that this means that the user that you are running Win4Lin 
under has not got permission to the devices that you are trying to access.

What you need to do is give the user that you are running Win4Lin as 
permission to the file in /dev/

ie:

chown myuser /dev/ttyS0

Gives the user "myuser" ownership of COM1

Just apply that same theory to other ports:

chown myuser /dev/lp0

Hope I've helped in some form

Regards


Andrew Reid
andrew.reid@plug.cx

> Hi Guys & Gals (Merry Xmas & Happy New Year to all)
> 
> I've just installed & Set-up the demo for win4lin 2 - everything went 
well.
> I've installed and set-up win 98.
> The only problem is when I try to set up the devices - IE lpt ports & game
> Ports win4lin config says they are unavailable because they are "Root 
only"
> which means I have no "lpt1" under windows.
> Win4Lin says that I need to change the privileges for this device.
> Can someone please inform me the easiest way to do this.
> (please try to remember I am a relative newbie)
> 
> 
> The other question I have is, I am thinking of making my Linux install a 
bit
> more permanent because it seems to be going very well (at the moment I 
have
> just got an old 4gig Maxtor hanging in my pc and when I want to swap OS I
> just unplug one HDD and plug in my Win 98) what I want to do is make a 
dual
> boot set-up on one drive. I've been thinking about  the promise ata66 IDE
> raid cards and another HDD and set-up a RAID 0. I know they work well for
> win has anyone used one under Linux & are they easy to set-up ?
> 
> Regards Matt
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> Basshams TV & Computer World
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> E-Mail : matt@basshams.com.au
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