On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 12:42:08PM +0100, Fergal Daly wrote:
I have an app that wants to read from \server\directory\file.ini and I don't have an easy way of changing this, so I want to tell wine that \server\directory is available in /mnt/smb/server/directory. Is this possible? What do I need to do?
If you try to read from a path starting "\." in Wine (in some versions), you'll get a message saying something like "Fixme: UNC name (%s) not supported.", but there is basic support for Wine to read from a file directly over an SMB link for paths that start with "\" up until Wine-20040505. It identifies itself as a WfW server and doesn't attempt to provide a username or password, as far as I can tell. It looks like the relevant functions were deleted before 20040615.
In principle, Wine could probably provide UNC-name support by calling 'smbclient', or by parsing /etc/mtab for 'smbfs' mountpoints and trying to access them like any other file. Another alternative would be a configuration-file override to alias an arbitrary UNC path as some file, just like the old [Drive X] mappings.
In your case, would it be acceptable to have a local, static copy of the .ini file, and just point Wine at that somehow?
(Forwarding to the developer's list, since it looks like this is a useful feature that was removed because no one was finishing it.)
This support was removed as it really has to be done kernel-side, but as to the state of integration now you'd have to ask Alexandre or Mike I suspect.
David Lee Lambert wrote:
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 12:42:08PM +0100, Fergal Daly wrote:
I have an app that wants to read from \server\directory\file.ini and I don't have an easy way of changing this, so I want to tell wine that \server\directory is available in /mnt/smb/server/directory. Is this possible? What do I need to do?
If you try to read from a path starting "\." in Wine (in some versions), you'll get a message saying something like "Fixme: UNC name (%s) not supported.", but there is basic support for Wine to read from a file directly over an SMB link for paths that start with "\" up until Wine-20040505. It identifies itself as a WfW server and doesn't attempt to provide a username or password, as far as I can tell. It looks like the relevant functions were deleted before 20040615.
In principle, Wine could probably provide UNC-name support by calling 'smbclient', or by parsing /etc/mtab for 'smbfs' mountpoints and trying to access them like any other file. Another alternative would be a configuration-file override to alias an arbitrary UNC path as some file, just like the old [Drive X] mappings.
In your case, would it be acceptable to have a local, static copy of the .ini file, and just point Wine at that somehow?
(Forwarding to the developer's list, since it looks like this is a useful feature that was removed because no one was finishing it.)
The message I was getting was
fixme:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name UNC name L"\??\UNC\machine\path"
so I had a look in the code and found the relevant place, added a few printfs and found that that
\machine\path
maps to
.wine/dosdevices/unc/MACHINE/PATH
so it is supported, it just doesn't seem to be documented anywhere that I could find. Everything is working nicely now.
I'll write a quick FAQ entry if I get time today. Thanks,
F
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 01:16:59AM -0400, David Lee Lambert wrote:
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 12:42:08PM +0100, Fergal Daly wrote:
I have an app that wants to read from \server\directory\file.ini and I don't have an easy way of changing this, so I want to tell wine that \server\directory is available in /mnt/smb/server/directory. Is this possible? What do I need to do?
If you try to read from a path starting "\." in Wine (in some versions), you'll get a message saying something like "Fixme: UNC name (%s) not supported.", but there is basic support for Wine to read from a file directly over an SMB link for paths that start with "\" up until Wine-20040505. It identifies itself as a WfW server and doesn't attempt to provide a username or password, as far as I can tell. It looks like the relevant functions were deleted before 20040615.
In principle, Wine could probably provide UNC-name support by calling 'smbclient', or by parsing /etc/mtab for 'smbfs' mountpoints and trying to access them like any other file. Another alternative would be a configuration-file override to alias an arbitrary UNC path as some file, just like the old [Drive X] mappings.
In your case, would it be acceptable to have a local, static copy of the .ini file, and just point Wine at that somehow?
(Forwarding to the developer's list, since it looks like this is a useful feature that was removed because no one was finishing it.)
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Fergal Daly wrote:
The message I was getting was
fixme:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name UNC name L"\??\UNC\machine\path"
so I had a look in the code and found the relevant place, added a few printfs and found that that
\machine\path
maps to
.wine/dosdevices/unc/MACHINE/PATH
so it is supported, it just doesn't seem to be documented anywhere that I could find. Everything is working nicely now.
I'll write a quick FAQ entry if I get time today. Thanks,
Cool! You're right, this does appear to be totally undocumented, I had no idea about this. It should probably go into winecfg and the man pages.
Perhaps someone could add this to
"The dosdevices Directory"
at
http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/wine-user/config-drive-main#CONFIG-DRIVE-SEC...
Windows shares can are mapped into the <TT CLASS="FILENAME">unc/</TT> directory so anything trying to access <TT CLASS="FILENAME">\machinename\some\dir\and\file</TT> will look in <TT CLASS="FILENAME">~/.wine/dosdevices/unc/machinename/some/dir/and/file</TT>. For example, if you used Samba to mount <TT CLASS="FILENAME">\machinename\some</TT> on <TT CLASS="FILENAME">/mnt/smb/machinename/some</TT> then you can do
<PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING">ln -s /mnt/smb/machinename/some unc/machinename/some</PRE>
to make it available in wine (don't forget to create the unc directory if it doesn't alrady exist).
Fergal
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 01:18:45PM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
Fergal Daly wrote:
The message I was getting was
fixme:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name UNC name L"\??\UNC\machine\path"
so I had a look in the code and found the relevant place, added a few printfs and found that that
\machine\path
maps to
.wine/dosdevices/unc/MACHINE/PATH
so it is supported, it just doesn't seem to be documented anywhere that I could find. Everything is working nicely now.
I'll write a quick FAQ entry if I get time today. Thanks,
Cool! You're right, this does appear to be totally undocumented, I had no idea about this. It should probably go into winecfg and the man pages.
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