[cw-discuss] samba shares > cxoffice-linux

[Michael W. Holdeman]

On Wednesday 28 February 2007 01:30:24 pm Joe Baker wrote:
> 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

Hi Joe,

I think mounting is the real problem. I haven't found a really good solution 
for auto mounting CIFS shares from a win2003 server. Also in kubuntu it is 
diffucult to let the users desktop mount without su priveledges...

I will have to work with the fusesmb solution, I looked into fuse some time 
ago, looked promising but at that time was kinda cryptic, hopefully it is 
easier now.

Sure wish some sw vendors in teh fire/ems industry would take a good hard look 
at linux!

Mike


> 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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