wine users - Dec 2009 - Running an app across a network

I have a small office network and am currently looking to switch all our
machines over to Linux Ubuntu. All areas of file sharing, printing and general
use seem to be running fine, however i have come up against a brick wall with a
windows application that all machines in our office need to run.

The program can be installed on all machines using wine and will run quite
happily on each machine however we need to tell the application to use a single
database file that is held on a central Linux machine. The application uses a
config file to point to a location on a server where the Db file is held, in our
old windows enviroment we simply wrote the path in the config file.

Here is an example of the config file from our windows enviroment that works
fine: ?
[Datafile]

//FBS2-PC/users/Public/resort/fbs.df1

My question is can wine applications run across a network and if so what path or
command would need to be used to direct the application into the correct
location, we have tried IP addresses, SMB:, Samba workgroups but nothing seems
to allow us to execute the Db file.

Any help would be great
Thanks

petecorbs wrote:
> //FBS2-PC/users/Public/resort/fbs.df1
> 
> My question is can wine applications run across a network and if so what
path or command would need to be used to direct the application into the correct
location
You have to use Samba aka CIFS to mount the remote share. Then map it in winecfg
to a driver letter.
Ex:

Code:
sudo mount -t cifs //FBS2-PC/users /mnt/users -o user=username
ln -s /mnt/users ~/.wine/dosdevices/y:



Then configure your program to open Y:\Public\resort\fbs.df1

Hi
I am pretty new to Linux could you give a bit more of a detailed tutorial ive
tried the code in my command line changing the username to my own but i get the
error /mnt/users doesnt exist.