[Wine] win program needs links to windows shares, how to config

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This program won't use shares that have been mapped to drive letters??

If it can then why don't you just mount the share somewhere on your
filesystem then create a new link to it in the .wine/dosdevices
directory.

Jeff

On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 11:43 -0600, Mr Duck wrote:
> I have a windows program that requires access to some windows
> shares on the network.  Some config files and other things
> reside on these shares (and must).  The program won't function
> w/o these things, but I haven't the foggiest how to have wine
> "sense" or "use" the connections.
> 
> Do I need to use smbfs and connect to the computer/share giving
> a local *nix path that matches it (using mount), or is there
> some "correct" way to handle this?  I'm pretty new to wine, and
> want to try to do things correctly, if there is a correct way.
> 
> In KDE, it doesn't matter if I mount the smb share or not, wine
> still doesn't find the needed shares.
> 
> Mr Duck
> 
> 
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