[Wine]faking network shares

[Fergal Daly]

Perhaps someone could add this to

"The dosdevices Directory"

at

http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/wine-user/config-drive-main#CONFIG-DRIVE-SECTIONS

Windows shares can are mapped into the <TT CLASS="FILENAME">unc/</TT>
directory so anything trying to access <TT
CLASS="FILENAME">\\machinename\some\dir\and\file</TT> will look in <TT
CLASS="FILENAME">~/.wine/dosdevices/unc/machinename/some/dir/and/file</TT>.
For example, if you used Samba to mount <TT
CLASS="FILENAME">\\machinename\some</TT> on <TT
CLASS="FILENAME">/mnt/smb/machinename/some</TT> then you can do

<PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING">ln -s /mnt/smb/machinename/some unc/machinename/some</PRE>

to make it available in wine (don't forget to create the unc directory if it
doesn't alrady exist).

Fergal


On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 01:18:45PM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
> Fergal Daly wrote:
> >The message I was getting was
> >
> >fixme:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name UNC name L"\\??\\UNC\\machine\path"
> >
> >so I had a look in the code and found the relevant place, added a few
> >printfs and found that that
> >
> >\\machine\path
> >
> >maps to
> >
> >.wine/dosdevices/unc/MACHINE/PATH
> >
> >so it is supported, it just doesn't seem to be documented anywhere that I
> >could find. Everything is working nicely now.
> >
> >I'll write a quick FAQ entry if I get time today. Thanks,
> 
> Cool! You're right, this does appear to be totally undocumented, I had 
> no idea about this. It should probably go into winecfg and the man pages.