Installing wine-overwatch: “Something went wrong trying to create a directory”

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I'm attempting to follow these instructions for installing Overwatch on Ubuntu 16.04.



The only difference is instead of installing to my home drive (which is networked), I'm installing to a local /shared/$USER/ which I have permissions on. ($USER variable wasn't working so I had to use the username directly)



When I get to the install step, by running:



WINEPREFIX='/home/myuser/.overwatch' WINE='/shared/myuser/wine-overwatch/bin/wine64' /shared/myuser/wine-overwatch/bin/wine64 /shared/myuser/Downloads/Overwatch-Setup.exe


I get the installer popping up with this error:




Something went wrong trying to create a directory
("C:/ProgramData/Battle.new/Agent"). Please ensure you have permission
to create the directory and try again.




Where is this directory so I can check permissions?



Here are the permissions on /shared/myuser



:/shared/myuser$ ls -al
total 6152596
drwxr-xr-x 7 myuser 10043 4096 Dec 5 13:28 .
drwxrwxrwx 4 root root 4096 Dec 5 13:25 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 myuser 10043 3949552 Dec 5 13:25 Overwatch-Setup.exe
drwxr-xr-x 13 myuser 10043 4096 Jun 28 09:41 .PlayOnLinux
drwxr-xr-x 2 myuser 10043 4096 May 30 2017 steamapps
drwxr-xr-x 6 myuser 10043 4096 Sep 22 11:59 wine-overwatch






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    I'm attempting to follow these instructions for installing Overwatch on Ubuntu 16.04.



    The only difference is instead of installing to my home drive (which is networked), I'm installing to a local /shared/$USER/ which I have permissions on. ($USER variable wasn't working so I had to use the username directly)



    When I get to the install step, by running:



    WINEPREFIX='/home/myuser/.overwatch' WINE='/shared/myuser/wine-overwatch/bin/wine64' /shared/myuser/wine-overwatch/bin/wine64 /shared/myuser/Downloads/Overwatch-Setup.exe


    I get the installer popping up with this error:




    Something went wrong trying to create a directory
    ("C:/ProgramData/Battle.new/Agent"). Please ensure you have permission
    to create the directory and try again.




    Where is this directory so I can check permissions?



    Here are the permissions on /shared/myuser



    :/shared/myuser$ ls -al
    total 6152596
    drwxr-xr-x 7 myuser 10043 4096 Dec 5 13:28 .
    drwxrwxrwx 4 root root 4096 Dec 5 13:25 ..
    -rw-r--r-- 1 myuser 10043 3949552 Dec 5 13:25 Overwatch-Setup.exe
    drwxr-xr-x 13 myuser 10043 4096 Jun 28 09:41 .PlayOnLinux
    drwxr-xr-x 2 myuser 10043 4096 May 30 2017 steamapps
    drwxr-xr-x 6 myuser 10043 4096 Sep 22 11:59 wine-overwatch






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      I'm attempting to follow these instructions for installing Overwatch on Ubuntu 16.04.



      The only difference is instead of installing to my home drive (which is networked), I'm installing to a local /shared/$USER/ which I have permissions on. ($USER variable wasn't working so I had to use the username directly)



      When I get to the install step, by running:



      WINEPREFIX='/home/myuser/.overwatch' WINE='/shared/myuser/wine-overwatch/bin/wine64' /shared/myuser/wine-overwatch/bin/wine64 /shared/myuser/Downloads/Overwatch-Setup.exe


      I get the installer popping up with this error:




      Something went wrong trying to create a directory
      ("C:/ProgramData/Battle.new/Agent"). Please ensure you have permission
      to create the directory and try again.




      Where is this directory so I can check permissions?



      Here are the permissions on /shared/myuser



      :/shared/myuser$ ls -al
      total 6152596
      drwxr-xr-x 7 myuser 10043 4096 Dec 5 13:28 .
      drwxrwxrwx 4 root root 4096 Dec 5 13:25 ..
      -rw-r--r-- 1 myuser 10043 3949552 Dec 5 13:25 Overwatch-Setup.exe
      drwxr-xr-x 13 myuser 10043 4096 Jun 28 09:41 .PlayOnLinux
      drwxr-xr-x 2 myuser 10043 4096 May 30 2017 steamapps
      drwxr-xr-x 6 myuser 10043 4096 Sep 22 11:59 wine-overwatch






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      I'm attempting to follow these instructions for installing Overwatch on Ubuntu 16.04.



      The only difference is instead of installing to my home drive (which is networked), I'm installing to a local /shared/$USER/ which I have permissions on. ($USER variable wasn't working so I had to use the username directly)



      When I get to the install step, by running:



      WINEPREFIX='/home/myuser/.overwatch' WINE='/shared/myuser/wine-overwatch/bin/wine64' /shared/myuser/wine-overwatch/bin/wine64 /shared/myuser/Downloads/Overwatch-Setup.exe


      I get the installer popping up with this error:




      Something went wrong trying to create a directory
      ("C:/ProgramData/Battle.new/Agent"). Please ensure you have permission
      to create the directory and try again.




      Where is this directory so I can check permissions?



      Here are the permissions on /shared/myuser



      :/shared/myuser$ ls -al
      total 6152596
      drwxr-xr-x 7 myuser 10043 4096 Dec 5 13:28 .
      drwxrwxrwx 4 root root 4096 Dec 5 13:25 ..
      -rw-r--r-- 1 myuser 10043 3949552 Dec 5 13:25 Overwatch-Setup.exe
      drwxr-xr-x 13 myuser 10043 4096 Jun 28 09:41 .PlayOnLinux
      drwxr-xr-x 2 myuser 10043 4096 May 30 2017 steamapps
      drwxr-xr-x 6 myuser 10043 4096 Sep 22 11:59 wine-overwatch








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          In Wine, C: translates by default to drive_c in the Wine prefix, so C:/ProgramData/Battle.new/Agent is /home/myuser/.overwatch/drive_c/ProgramData/Battle.new/Agent.






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            In Wine, C: translates by default to drive_c in the Wine prefix, so C:/ProgramData/Battle.new/Agent is /home/myuser/.overwatch/drive_c/ProgramData/Battle.new/Agent.






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              In Wine, C: translates by default to drive_c in the Wine prefix, so C:/ProgramData/Battle.new/Agent is /home/myuser/.overwatch/drive_c/ProgramData/Battle.new/Agent.






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                In Wine, C: translates by default to drive_c in the Wine prefix, so C:/ProgramData/Battle.new/Agent is /home/myuser/.overwatch/drive_c/ProgramData/Battle.new/Agent.






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                In Wine, C: translates by default to drive_c in the Wine prefix, so C:/ProgramData/Battle.new/Agent is /home/myuser/.overwatch/drive_c/ProgramData/Battle.new/Agent.







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