Mount Windows Server Share as drive letter

Daniel T · Post by **Daniel T** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 9:34 am

Hello all,

New to Wine, not so new to Linux but still a newbie.

I need to run my Goldmine software on my Ubuntu machine, so I need to mount the drive letter that I use on my workstation (windows) to the share on my Windows server so that Goldmine can see its database and license file.

I tried pointing the drive letter to the path using SMB://server/share but that does not seem to work.

Please advise, how can I mount a drive letter (even if it is using something other than Wine) so that my software can see its database and license files?

Thanks in advance, this will be a real time saver for me.

Dan

Post by **dimesio** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 11:05 am

Daniel T wrote: I need to run my Goldmine software on my Ubuntu machine, so I need to mount the drive letter that I use on my workstation (windows) to the share on my Windows server so that Goldmine can see its database and license file.

I tried pointing the drive letter to the path using SMB://server/share but that does not seem to work.

Please advise, how can I mount a drive letter (even if it is using something other than Wine) so that my software can see its database and license files?

http://www.winehq.org/docs/en/wineusr-guide.html#AEN415

Daniel T · Post by **Daniel T** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 11:27 am

but my /wine directory has no "unc" subdirectory.
when I issued the command ln -s /mnt/smb/<myserver>/<myshare> unc/<myserver>/<myshare> it returned No such file or directory error.

Daniel T · Post by **Daniel T** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 11:29 am

I tried creating the unc directory then issuing the command, still got that error.
Also, my mnt directory is empty.
I am using Ubuntu 8.10 could that cause smb share to map differently?

Post by **DanKegel** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 11:34 am

Daniel T wrote:I tried creating the unc directory then issuing the command, still got that error.
Also, my mnt directory is empty.

You forgot to do the smbmount. The very first step is
to create a directory somewhere that has the
network share mounted from Unix's point of
view, i.e. one where looking at the directory
with 'ls' shows the right files.

You can do this either with smbmount (the old hard way) into e.g. /mnt,
or with gnome (the new easy way) into ~/.gvfs.

The user guide could use a bit of polish here.
Maybe we should move that section to the wiki
at least for now so people can improve it more easily.

Daniel T · Post by **Daniel T** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 11:40 am

Wow awesome! I did not know about the .gvfs obviously being a newibe.

Thanks, I used that path and it worked!!

Yipee

IneedAname · Post by **IneedAname** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 7:37 pm

On Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:34:41 -0600
"Daniel T" <[email protected]> wrote:

Please advise, how can I mount a drive letter (even if it is using something other than Wine) so that my software can see its database and license files?

smbmount //192.168.100.10/guest ~/1 -o user=LogInNameOfServer
Then map a drive letter to ~/1