Trying to open and edit a form in wine using Access 2000. Only problem is that the file I need is over the network on a win xp server. I can bring up Access just fine, click open, but when I click on network places I get this: [Image: http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk317/phydeaux24/Screenshot.png ] I have tried everything but I'm horribly new to this. Please help.[/img]
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:35 PM, phydeaux <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Trying to open and edit a form in wine using Access 2000. Only problem is that the file I need is over the network on a win xp server. I can bring up Access just fine, click open, but when I click on network places I get this: > > > [Image: http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk317/phydeaux24/Screenshot.png ] > > I have tried everything but I'm horribly new to this. Please help.[/img] > > > > > >Do you have samba installed and the network shares mapped? -- -Austin
phydeaux wrote:> Only problem is that the file I need is over the network on a win xp server.Wine does not support windows networking. You have to map all remote shares with samba. Then point Wine to it using winecf to map each mounted dir to Wine's disk.
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 13:35 -0600, phydeaux wrote:> Trying to open and edit a form in wine using Access 2000. Only problem is that the file I need is over the network on a win xp server. I can bring up Access just fine, click open, but when I click on network places I get this: > > > [Image: http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk317/phydeaux24/Screenshot.png ] > > I have tried everything but I'm horribly new to this. Please help.[/img]I bit off-topic, but maybe of use to you ... I have written a set of Perl libraries ( open-source & fully cross-platform ) that use Gtk2-Perl to replace MS Access forms, datasheets and reports. If you want to use this solution, you're looking at a rewrite of your MS Access application, but it's worth it. It's all up on my website: http://entropy.homelinux.org/axis/ Also available on cpan ( but versions haven't been updated in a while ): - Gtk2::Ex::DBI - Gtk2::Ex::Datasheet::DBI - PDF::ReportWriter There are screenshots of a production system that I ported from MS Access because it was becoming unstable and unmanagable ( and very slow ). As for MS Access under wine, I tried that before embarking on developing the above. At the time I was using a trial version of crossover office. It was OK for running simple forms, but was prone to crashing quite often, and would corrupt the mdb file when this happened, which wasn't so good. Also getting ODBC drivers working in wine was a nightmare. Maybe things have changed recently? Haven't bothered trying. Dan
DanKegel wrote:> You can use gnome's "Connect to Server" menu item instead of samba... > see http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/linux_desktop_guides/gnome_2.14_user_guide/gosnautilus-515.html > > Then in winecfg map a drive to $HOME/.gvfs/<sharename> > > And away you go! > > We really need an FAQ on how to do this.Ok, so I don't have a /.gvfs/ under my home directory. ??? I was able to mount the network drive, navigate to the database form, right click and open under wine windows program loader This is what I got: [Image: http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk317/phydeaux24/Screenshot1.png ] I downloaded the .dll, navigated to the wine c:/ drive/windows/system32 but the .dll is already there!!! Now I'm really lost. Please understand that I have the boss breathing down my neck and am trying to do this sink or swim style. Thanks for the continued help!!!
phydeaux wrote:> This is what I got:Code: wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks winetricks jet40 http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks phydeaux wrote:> Please understand that I have the boss breathing down my neck and am trying to do this sink or swim style.Then why the hell did you got into something you have no clue about? Wine is not guaranteed to work with ANY windows application. If you got it to work - good for you. If not - oh well, something more for wine hackers to fix. If you absolutely have to have something working DO NOT use Wine as a possible solution.
Thought this was a forum for help, not ass chewings. Forgive me for wanting to learn, I did not realize it was a crime until just now.
austin987 wrote:> Vitamin, chill out, this IS the users forum. You can't blame a user for trying to get an app to work.I don't blame anyone for anything. If user have to have it working _NOW_ (pretty darn close to COB here) then use what known to work - windows. BTW you'll need it's license anyway if you install most anything through winetricks. If you have all the time in the world to piddle with it, figure out how things work, learn how to use Linux, etc - then by all means. Just don't expect it to work RIGHT NOW. Or work at all for that matter in the current Wine version.