Quick UNC support hack?

Stefan Leichter Stefan.Leichter at camline.com
Wed Nov 7 12:08:49 CST 2001


Hello,

who likes to do some alpha test ;-) ?

Tschüß Stefan


Dan Kegel wrote:

> I ran into a situation where partial UNC support would be
> helpful and easy.  Visual Sourcesafe runs well under Wine
> if I map \\vssServer\vssDir to a drive letter.  Unfortunately,
> our administrator has the line
>   journal_file = \\vssServer\vssDir\foo.txt
> in the sourcesafe config file.  This causes an error dialog box
> "Bad DOS filename \\vssServer\vssDir\foo.txt".
> 
> If Wine handled UNC paths as follows:
>   Given a UNC path \\foo\bar,
>   look at /etc/mtab for a matching smbfs mount.
>   If one is found, look at .wine/config for a drive letter mapped to that
>   mount. If one is found, convert the UNC path to be relative to that
>   drive letter.
> I wouldn't get that error box.  I dunno, but maybe this is worth doing;
> it might help a few other apps.
> 
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