Silly Noob

phydeaux · Post by **phydeaux** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 4:22 pm

Ok, Installed Ubuntu 8.10 clean, installed Wine, installed Office 2000 clean.

What I need to do is open a database form in MSAccess on a server across the network. Access opens clean under XP, I click open, then click on my network button and get this error message:

The file name, location, or format '::{208d2c60-3aea-1069-a2d7-08002b30309d}' is not valid. Type the file name in the correct format, such as c:\location\file name.

I am at a total loss as I'm not very savvy with Winblows or Linux. I'm pulling my hair out and google is no help at all right now. Help me learn!!!

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 4:26 pm

phydeaux wrote:What I need to do is open a database form in MSAccess on a server across the network. Access opens clean under XP, I click open, then click on my network button and get this error message:

Wine doesn't support m$ networking. You can open local files only. Or samba mounted remote shares.

Also Wine does not implement most of remote RPC which most of m$ stuff uses to open "remote resources".

phydeaux · Post by **phydeaux** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 4:33 pm

Gotcha, this is for work so any solutions? I was thinking XP on a virtual machine.

James Mckenzie · Post by **James Mckenzie** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 5:02 pm

phydeaux <[email protected]> at: Dec 22, 2008 4:33 PM wrote about: [Wine] Re: Silly Noob

Gotcha, this is for work so any solutions? I was thinking XP on a virtual machine.

Can you connect to the directory where this file exists through your Linux system using Samba?

If you can, you can map the drive through Winecfg to appear as a local drive. Otherwise, you may have to use a VM running WindowsXP to work with this file until Wine becomes more mature. If you have programming skills and the desire, you can take this on as a project. Just remember, Wine developers cannot look at Windows source code nor can they reverse engineer Windows code. The idea is to replicate Windows functionality in a clean-room environment.

James McKenzie

phydeaux · Post by **phydeaux** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 5:32 pm

Not sure about that one. I just installed Samba and have no idea what I'm doing. I'm virtually clueless when it comes to networking so please use the most basic of layman's terms possible. Basically I'm network challenged.