[Bug 14501] docs incorrectly claim that unc paths work

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14501





--- Comment #2 from Erik <codeslinger at compsalot.com>  2008-07-15 17:43:51 ---
hey great, thanks for the response!!!

*should* !== *does* work

I just spent two rather painful high stress days of banging my head against the
wall trying to get this to work with a program that needs to be able to open a
unc path.  I gave up and am installing vmware at this very moment.

What I expect is to be able to type dir \\server\share  and see something.
and that is documented in bug 425 as not working.  also the program "medisoft"
is not working.

But I am certainly open to suggestions...
Perhaps I should explain what medisoft is doing.  you see it is a client server
app.  It provides you with a browse dialog to locate the server, but you don't
have to browse you can just type in the path if you know it -- which I
tried....

Then AFAICT what it does is connect to that share and create a dummy file to
ensure the path is valid.  After that it uses the ip that it gets from looking
up that computer/share and starts talking to the server via udp.

I am pretty sure the ui works, I expect the udp to work.  But I can not no way
no how get the unc share to work.   And bug #425 makes it pretty clear to me
that it does not work.  Thus this request to change the docs and save others
the grief that I went through.


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