Can wine access samba share?

redss · Post by **redss** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 10:10 am

Can I configure wine to access a windows NTFS samba share as a drive letter (mounted as type SMBFS)?

xyz32 · Post by **xyz32** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 12:27 pm

Tell your OS to map the network drive for you and then in "wine configuration/Drivers" create a new drive pointing to that folder.

The way I do it on my linux box in fstab I have this:

//Net/TEMP /media/local/ cifs noperm,username=me,password=secret,nounix,rw 0 0

The nounix is there so that cifs does not try to set all sorts of parameters on the share.

Regards.

redss · Post by **redss** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 7:33 pm

So does that mean NTFS shares can be recognized in wine if mounted as CIFS? What about if mounted as SMBFS?

xyz32 · Post by **xyz32** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 8:20 am

For what I know SMBFS is the old way of doing things ("smbfs has not been maintained in the last few years") so I would suggest using CIFS.

Now what the filesystem is on the server that is sharing it does not rely matter as long as you have permission to access it (see Username and Password in my example). The network protocol will do the rest.

Regards

redss · Post by **redss** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 7:43 pm

Got it working, the problem was that when mounting the windows share as root, I had to mount as the ubuntu user so that the ubuntu user had full write access.