[cw-discuss] samba shares > cxoffice-linux

[Joe Baker]

I think there is a way to use remote filesystems like you are trying to do.

First it involves mounting the remote share to some place on the Linux
filesystem.
Then, depending on how you want it to appear to the Wine environment,
you might be able to just assign that mount point a drive letter under
the /opt/cxoffice/support/*/dosdevices/ folder.

Google keywords to search for:
wine dosdevices "symbolic link" "network share" UNC

I have a soft spot for fire departments trying to use Open Source.
I used to be a systems admin for a Police/Fire unit here is Wisconsin.

-Joe Baker




Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
> I have a freesb samba server that has been running for 4 years fine, the main 
> share is a database app that is fir fire department reporting. The client app 
> runs on windows only. For all this time I have been running it in a VMware 
> session on Kubuntu, and it works but I stiull don't like having to actually 
> run the windows session, so last week I tried CXoffice again and this time 
> the app runs in it! 
>
> All functions of the app seem to work great, the only problem is I cant access 
> the share? I tried mounting the share as CIFS with smb4k, still no go, the 
> permissions get screwed up and the program corrupts various portions of the 
> database. If I copy the db to a local directory it will work fine, but this 
> won't work as there may be 2 working in various parts of the db at a time.
>
> Anyone done this, or have any suggestions?
>
> Mike
>
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