Accesing a windows share from Wine

[William Scott Lockwood III]

Also, have you tried \\$ipaddr\sharename instead? If it can connect by
IP but not by name, then you have a DNS issue. That's easily solved by
defining the server you're trying to connect to in /etc/hosts.

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W. Scott Lockwood III


On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 9:55 AM, William Scott Lockwood III
<scott at guppylog.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 9:47 AM, Sterpu Victor <victor at caido.ro> wrote:
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>> Wine allows me to map drives, could I map a custom name
>> somehow(/media/laws mapped to \\server\temp)?
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> No, because \\ is special, it tells you that this is a network path. You
> could reshare it out but that would be a huge mess, and it would still
> require a network path, which isn't working for you. What do the logs say?
> Are you getting any output that could be useful to the folks over at winehq?
> Also, have you looked up the application at winehq to see if anyone has a
> guide on getting it to work on Linux?
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> I'm perplexed that you can't access a network path with the application
> under wine. That should just work.
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> W. Scott Lockwood III