How to access partition on HD...

[NJ0E]

I have my HD in 4 partitions:
C;Windows
D: Everything else (personal info and program install other than windows
E:Ubuntu 8.04
F: Swap File for ubuntu

When I configure Wine I get
C; windows
D:/home/njoe
H:../
Z:
How can I point to the correct dirves?
How can I install form the Everything esle drive?

Thanks for the assist
Joe

[vitamin]

I have my HD in 4 partitions:
C;Windows
D: Everything else (personal info and program install other than windows
E:Ubuntu 8.04
F: Swap File for ubuntu

When I configure Wine I get
C; windows
D:/home/njoe
H:../
Z:
How can I point to the correct dirves?
How can I install form the Everything esle drive?

Thanks for the assist
Joe

You have to mount those partitions with Linux first. Then map those mount points with winecfg to drives.

[NJ0E]

ok... mount HD partitions -- WHY? I can see them under ubuntu when I go to the places tab on my desktop. Arent they mounted? Pardon the noobie quesitons.

Joe

[vitamin]

ok... mount HD partitions -- WHY?

That's what you have to do before accessing them. What some other program might do is irrelevant.
If you want Wine to access that information, you have to mount them first. See output of 'mount' command to verify if they are mounted or not.

[dimesio]

When I configure Wine I get
C; windows
D:/home/njoe
H:../
Z:
How can I point to the correct dirves?
How can I install form the Everything esle drive?

What exactly did you do to "configure Wine"?

If your Windows partitions are mounted, winecfg should detect them when you click the Autodetect button on the drives tab.

[jimtanis]

I have 2 partitions as well as a mapped network drive I would like to access from Wine. I have the drives in question mounted, and they show up in the places under Ubuntu hardy heron. I go to the winecfg , or just clock on applications, Wine, Configure Wine, and go to the drives tab, and can't find the drives in question. I have used the autodetect button as well, and nothing shows up.

Again, the drives are already mapped, mounted, and accessible from the places tab in Ubuntu.

Thanks! Jim NX0R

[dimesio]

What happens when you try to add them manually in winecfg?

[jimtanis]

I tried that . They show up in the configuration page, but are not accessible from any programs. For example I have Quicken installed, and use a Network drive to store my data files with backups on individual computers. The drives I need don't show up as a choice when I browse for files. Same with Notepad. Here (to the best of my ability to type them in) is what shows in the cnf page:

C: //drive_c
D: /media/cdrom0
E: /my book (g) on nx0r (added manually by me)
F: /nx0r/g: "
G: /
H: /home/jimtanis
I: /
Z: /


On Notepad when I look at My Computer I have listed C: D: G: Home H: I: and Z: None of which when opened are remotely what the network drive has on it.

Is there a network browser for wine like in XP ?

Thanks! Jim

[Plamen.Vassilev]

Hello, maybe the spaces and braces in the below name are the problem?

/my book (g) on nx0r

try using something without blank spaces and braces, or escape them (or quote) the name, like
/my_book_g_on_nx0r

Hope that helps
-P

[dimesio]

http://winehq.org/site/docs/wineusr-gui ... ure#AEN415

[jimtanis]

Ok, I posted a screenshot of some of the stuff I am talking about at http://www.agapesbc.org/Screenshot.png .

I know I am doing something wrong setting up the network drives. I looked at the /mnt folder and there are no entries in it at all. But there are shares shown (See the left side of my folder browser). It is displaying the /mnt folder in the main pane.

I am a newbie to Linux, and appreciate all the help I can get.

Thanks! Jim NX0R

[vitamin]

Ok, I posted a screenshot of some of the stuff I am talking about at http://www.agapesbc.org/Screenshot.png .

Each partition have to be mounted for Wine to access it. Wine does not support "smb://" "filesystem". If you do not know how to do it - ask on your distro's forum.

[jimtanis]

If the partitions were not mounted, would I be able to click and browse them from the links in the Ubuntu file browser?

Thanks Jim

[vitamin]

If the partitions were not mounted, would I be able to click and browse them from the links in the Ubuntu file browser?

Yes, especially cifs (samba).

[jimtanis]

Can you give me an example of what the share would like like in Wine Configuration (drives tab) for a windows computer xxxxx sharing drive G: with a name like my drive ?

Thanks! Jim

[vitamin]

Can you give me an example of what the share would like like in Wine Configuration (drives tab) for a windows computer xxxxx sharing drive G: with a name like my drive ?

/mnt/some_dir (or whatever you mounted it to).

In case you still don't understand - you have to mount the remote share first (no smb:// is NOT a mount). Then you point Wine there.

[jimtanis]

Ok, I am stupid! I don't understand HOW to do this. I have am trying to connect to another computer on my network, and to an external 2tb raid drive connected to it.

HOW Specifically do I mount the drive in wine, and use it? Assume the computer name is xxxx and the external drive is yyyy

I am just too windows orientated. Thanks for trying to help me!

Jim Tanis

[dimesio]

Ok, I am stupid! I don't understand HOW to do this. I have am trying to connect to another computer on my network, and to an external 2tb raid drive connected to it.

HOW Specifically do I mount the drive in wine, and use it? Assume the computer name is xxxx and the external drive is yyyy

I am just too windows orientated. Thanks for trying to help me!

Jim Tanis

You mount it in Linux, not Wine. If you don't know how to do that, ask in your distro's support forums.

[Tlarhices]

Ok, I am stupid! I don't understand HOW to do this. I have am trying to connect to another computer on my network, and to an external 2tb raid drive connected to it.

HOW Specifically do I mount the drive in wine, and use it? Assume the computer name is xxxx and the external drive is yyyy

I am just too windows orientated. Thanks for trying to help me!

Jim Tanis

First you have to choose a folder where you want to mount it. For instance, let's call it "samba_folder"
Start a terminal, type :

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sudo mkdir /mnt/samba_folder

To prepare the future folder where you will find the files.

We make a copy of the file "/etc/fstab" before playing with it :

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sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.old

Then edit as root the file "/etc/fstab"

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gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

You will see some line looking like this :

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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# /dev/sda3 UUID=b6084658 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda1 UUID=86BAAFD /media/sda1 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda2 UUID=9f206381 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0

Don't play with them or your computer might not be able to mount all your partitions ;)

After the last line, add a new one and put this :

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//xxxx/yyyy /mnt/samba_folder smb defaults 0 0

And replace xxxx and yyyy by the name of the computer and the name of the folder respectively and /mnt/samba_folder by the folder you have created at the beginning.

Then restart your computer, run winecfg and add a drive pointing to the /mnt/samba_folder (or whatever you have called it)

If you have a problem at restart and/or have destroyed your /etc/fstab file, just do :

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sudo mv /etc/fstab.old /etc/fstab

And restart.

There might be some graphical tools to do it for you but I don't know any.
Also your computer might become slower at boot as it will connect to your samba folder at that time.

If you want to mount it without playing with /etc/fstab, without restarting, ... but you will have to do it after each computer reboot. Google for smbmount and you will find how. I'll not write a complete tutorial on every single way to mount a samba folder, just putting the most "traditional" way of doing it.

If you need more help, ask/search on your distribution forum how to mount a samba folder. This is not a Wine problem by itself.

[jimtanis]

Wow! Thank You Tlarhices ! You have put it in a way that makes sense to me! I will try some of these things tonight after work!

Thanks again

Jim NX0R