Linux, Wine, Network Drive, Startup drive Problem.
 

I hope this is the correct place for this question.

Scenario: How it works in Windows.

I have a server designated as F: drive. This server is a linux server. All computers that access this server are windows machines.

In windows, you can make a "Short Cut" that links a Executable program to the F: drive on the server. When you click on this "Short Cut", Windows will "Run" your program in the exact directory the Executable is located.

Thus, if you Make a "Short Cut" called "Customer" on your network F: drive, you can click on that shortcut and "Customer" will run as if you ran it directly off the F: drive, NOT your station drive of C:

Now *MY* scenario what I WANT to do:

I want to copy the above scenario and be able to do the same thing with Linux and WINE.

I have tried to make a "Shortcut" to my Linux laptop, but it fails. I can only "Copy" the program to the laptop. And when I run it on the laptop, it will not run, because it does not recognize the "F:" drive having all the data files, it only recognizes the C: drive of my linux.

When I tried to make a "link", it says something like "LInk not supported by this file".

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So, is it possible to make a "shortcut" to a executable file on the network server, so that if you run the shortcut, it will run the program as if it is located on the F: server instead of the linux station? In Windows, it has a field that says "Target", in which the file will be ran in that directory.

Dwayne

It sounds like the problem is that you haven't mounted the shared Samba directory to the Linux machine, and instead are trying to access it via the smb:// path, which isn't a valid location outside of the file manager.

The general idea of mounting a Samba share to a local directory and accessing it is discussed here.