How much of Wine Explorer is functional?

David Gerard · Post by **David Gerard** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 9:01 am

I wanted to play music in VLC for Windows off a network SMB share. [*]
Music's on \\red\trollop\music\ so I put that into VLC and it didn't
like it.

So I started "wine explorer" from the command line and went to
"Connect network drive ..." and it came up with a dialogue box: "No
network" - that's all.

Is this actually supposed to work properly, or is something wrong?

[*] Trying to do this in KDE4 is an exercise in pain. The only app
that appears able to stream from an smb:// URL is Dragon, and that
doesn't play folders or have a playlist - all the others copy the file
before starting playback. Amarok 2 should do it, but crashes if you
look at it funny. Suggestions welcomed.

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austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 9:49 am

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 8:00 AM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:

I wanted to play music in VLC for Windows off a network SMB share. [*]
Music's on \\red\trollop\music\ so I put that into VLC and it didn't
like it.

So I started "wine explorer" from the command line and went to
"Connect network drive ..." and it came up with a dialogue box: "No
network" - that's all.

Is this actually supposed to work properly, or is something wrong?

[*] Trying to do this in KDE4 is an exercise in pain. The only app
that appears able to stream from an smb:// URL is Dragon, and that
doesn't play folders or have a playlist - all the others copy the file
before starting playback. Amarok 2 should do it, but crashes if you
look at it funny. Suggestions welcomed.

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Mount the share in samba and then add it in winecfg.

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vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 9:52 am

David Gerard wrote:I wanted to play music in VLC for Windows off a network SMB share. [*]

Mount it with SAMBA first. Wine doesn't support m$ networking.

David Gerard · Post by **David Gerard** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 10:33 am

2008/12/24 vitamin <[email protected]>:

David Gerard wrote:

I wanted to play music in VLC for Windows off a network SMB share. [*]

Mount it with SAMBA first. Wine doesn't support m$ networking.

Thank you, that's what I was wondering

Why does Wine Explorer have "Connect network drive ..." if it can't do
what it would be expected to do? Are there plans to support Windows
networking in the future?

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vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 2:51 pm

David Gerard wrote:Why does Wine Explorer have "Connect network drive ..." if it can't do what it would be expected to do?

"Explorer" has nothing to do with it. This function might work just fine on real windows.

David Gerard · Post by **David Gerard** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 2:56 pm

2008/12/24 vitamin <[email protected]>:

David Gerard wrote:

Why does Wine Explorer have "Connect network drive ..." if it can't do what it would be expected to do?

"Explorer" has nothing to do with it. This function might work just fine on real windows.

I might try running Wine Explorer on a copy of Windows then %-D

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winspool · Post by **winspool** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 3:03 pm

David Gerard wrote:

Why does Wine Explorer have "Connect network drive ..." if it can't do what it would be expected to do?
...
I might try running Wine Explorer on a copy of Windows then .

Explorer from Wine manages the virtual Desktop, but has otherwise no GUI.
The GUI you saw is winefile:

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wine winefile

Winefile is an incomplete replacement for the win3.x filemanager winfile.

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