I'm trying to run a exe file that is located on my Vista partition, when I browse to the file and try to change the file to run as executable the tick box unticks itself right after i tick it, i tried running gksu nautilus but it does the same thing
Wine – Fix .exe File Permission Fail
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Best Answer
This is likely because the Vista partition is using the NTFS filesystem and it was mounted with an
fmask
that does not permit setting execute permissions on files.To fix this you need to manually mount the partition.
Details can be found on this post.
Here are the steps you need to take:
df
Type the following:
Replace
<DRIVE>
with your drive's device.