lawson_whitney@juno.com wrote:
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Dan Kegel wrote:
Alexandre Julliard wrote:
and then \foo\x would mean the same thing as f:\x. This way you can also fake network mounts using the local filesystem.
I agree that faking network mounts is a good thing, but parsing mtab makes for much easier configuration. Instead of forcing the user to add a server field, wine can figure it out itself. Isn't that a good thing? Why force the user to enter in duplicate info?
Why force the users to use samba to simulate UNC? Has Wine really any business to go crawling through mtab looking for resources it can make available to windows programs?
Until Wine has smbclient code linked into it, and a way to set up persistant network drive mappings, I'm afraid there is no other choice.
Wineinstall can do this if it likes, and generate [Drive X] with "Server" =, and the Wine Administrator can change them if _it_ likes.
Unfortunately, this is something users should be able to do at any time, not just at install time.
I am more comfortable to believe Wine will only mess where I tell it it can mess.
Fine, you can turn the feature off. Note that you'd be silly to do so, since the feature I'm proposing only looks at directories already available to Wine programs, and would thus have very little chance of causing trouble.
What IS UNC, anyway? :-/
On the off chance you're serious, UNC stands for Universal Naming Convention, and it means the \host\share\foo style of filenames one can use to avoid using network drive letters.
- Dan