[Wine] Accessing Windows network from application in Wine

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Sun Feb 15 22:56:29 CST 2009


Rico wrote:
> RichShark wrote:
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>> I have successfully set up MYOB (accounting software used a lot in Australia) to run with Wine 1.0 (on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS). I now need to be able to access the data file on another PC (Windows XP) via a network which I cannot seem to get to when using the drop down list to find the file - all I can see under 'My Computer' are: C: - fake windows drive, E: - CD drive and Z: - Linux drive.
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>> I can see the Windows network fine using Ubuntu - Places -> Network. I cannot see my Ubuntu machine from the XP machines.
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> If I get you right, you have to mount the windows share in ubuntu with somthing like this (probably as root):
> #mount -t smbfs "//192.168.0.1/share/" /mnt/local
>
> After that you could run winefile or your app (as user):
> $wine winefile
> And you should be able to access the folder with Z:\mnt\local .
>
>   
That or you may just want to give the share its own drive, which is what
I recommend.

James McKenzie




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