Ok, Installed Ubuntu 8.10 clean, installed Wine, installed Office 2000 clean. What I need to do is open a database form in MSAccess on a server across the network. Access opens clean under XP, I click open, then click on my network button and get this error message: The file name, location, or format '::{208d2c60-3aea-1069-a2d7-08002b30309d}' is not valid. Type the file name in the correct format, such as c:\location\file name. I am at a total loss as I'm not very savvy with Winblows or Linux. I'm pulling my hair out and google is no help at all right now. Help me learn!!!
phydeaux wrote:> What I need to do is open a database form in MSAccess on a server across the network. Access opens clean under XP, I click open, then click on my network button and get this error message:Wine doesn't support m$ networking. You can open local files only. Or samba mounted remote shares. Also Wine does not implement most of remote RPC which most of m$ stuff uses to open "remote resources".
Gotcha, this is for work so any solutions? I was thinking XP on a virtual machine.
phydeaux <wineforum-user at winehq.org> at: Dec 22, 2008 4:33 PM wrote about: [Wine] Re: Silly Noob> >Gotcha, this is for work so any solutions? I was thinking XP on a virtual machine. >Can you connect to the directory where this file exists through your Linux system using Samba? If you can, you can map the drive through Winecfg to appear as a local drive. Otherwise, you may have to use a VM running WindowsXP to work with this file until Wine becomes more mature. If you have programming skills and the desire, you can take this on as a project. Just remember, Wine developers cannot look at Windows source code nor can they reverse engineer Windows code. The idea is to replicate Windows functionality in a clean-room environment. James McKenzie