[cw-discuss] samba shares > cxoffice-linux

[Michael W. Holdeman]

On Wednesday 28 February 2007 02:15:25 pm Richard Lemay wrote:
> Hello,
>
> May I suggest the use of FuseSMB? It is pretty safe and you can have a
> directory automatically list all available machine with their share. If
> you have a recent distribution, it might be the easiest solution (you'd
> have to add a symlink under dosdevices like M. Baker suggests).
>

Richard, I don't want to sound "stupid" but do you have any better cleaner 
info on setting it up? the links I found to howto's are a bit confusing.

Mike
> Joe Baker a écrit :
> > 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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