http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14501
--- Comment #2 from Erik codeslinger@compsalot.com 2008-07-15 17:43:51 --- hey great, thanks for the response!!!
*should* !== *does* work
I just spent two rather painful high stress days of banging my head against the wall trying to get this to work with a program that needs to be able to open a unc path. I gave up and am installing vmware at this very moment.
What I expect is to be able to type dir \server\share and see something. and that is documented in bug 425 as not working. also the program "medisoft" is not working.
But I am certainly open to suggestions... Perhaps I should explain what medisoft is doing. you see it is a client server app. It provides you with a browse dialog to locate the server, but you don't have to browse you can just type in the path if you know it -- which I tried....
Then AFAICT what it does is connect to that share and create a dummy file to ensure the path is valid. After that it uses the ip that it gets from looking up that computer/share and starts talking to the server via udp.
I am pretty sure the ui works, I expect the udp to work. But I can not no way no how get the unc share to work. And bug #425 makes it pretty clear to me that it does not work. Thus this request to change the docs and save others the grief that I went through.