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Old 05-03-2011, 11:12 AM   #1
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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.

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Old 05-03-2011, 02:34 PM   #2
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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.
 
  


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