[cw-discuss] Specify Drive Letters on CX Mac?

[Jeremy White]

Hi Dean,

Dean Blackburn wrote:
> I can't for the life of me find this setting, and my creaky memory
> declares I was capable of doing this on Linux -
> 
> We have an application (Pelican Profiles) that runs straight off a
> network share, doesn't get "installed" on client desktops, but does* use
> a client-side .lnk shortcut, with runtime arguments that target the
> drive letter of the sharepoint the actual application/data reside on.
> So, really two problems:
> 
> 1) How to generate/modify .LNKs from CX Mac;

Andrew has already committed some code for that, so hopefully we'll
have something in the next beta version to try.

> 
> 2) How to specify the drive letter in CX Mac (short of just making all
> the alphabetical sharepoints in order until we hit the 'right' letter)

You can arrange drive letter mappings by putting a symbolic link in
this folder:
  ~/Library/Application Support/CrossOver/<your-bottle-name-here>/dosdevices
to the place you'd like (see that folder for examples).

> 
> I'm sorry if I've missed something in the docs, but I've been unable to
> find any promising references, and thought it might just not be coded
> into the beta yet.
> 
> The promising bit is, the app will start up to a point, and then
> complain when it can't find this share... So, hopefully, using the
> shortcut to launch it will resolve all our issues.

Good luck - hope it works!

Cheers,

Jeremy