Accessing Windows network from application in Wine

RichShark · Post by **RichShark** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:00 pm

I have successfully set up MYOB (accounting software used a lot in Australia) to run with Wine 1.0 (on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS). I now need to be able to access the data file on another PC (Windows XP) via a network which I cannot seem to get to when using the drop down list to find the file - all I can see under 'My Computer' are: C: - fake windows drive, E: - CD drive and Z: - Linux drive.

I can see the Windows network fine using Ubuntu - Places -> Network. I cannot see my Ubuntu machine from the XP machines.

I found FAQ - 6.26. My program fails to do networking, but Linux can get online
and was wondering if this is how to fix this? This seems to apply to games...

My hosts file contains:

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 rich-Evo

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

From the Network Settings I found my hostname but no domain name. There is a DNS Server with a number very similar to the on in the FAQ - 192.168.1.1

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 9:49 pm

RichShark wrote:My hosts file contains:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 rich-Evo

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-0344b43 ... 6855283afd

RichShark · Post by **RichShark** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:12 pm

Hi vitamin. Thank you for the link. I did find this article but was confused by the presence of 2 lines of 127. etc in the hosts file. Do I have to remove both? I cannot find any way of finding what 'yourdomain' is on my machine so I cannot complete this part of the solution below (no instructions for this in the article):

192.168.0.23 yourhost.yourdomain.com yourhost

I have the 'yourhost' part, and I assume the DNS part is as I found under the network settings, or do I enter the 198.168.0.23 as above?
I am quite new to Ubuntu and very new to Wine and 'making things work' on Ubuntu.
Thanks again.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 9:37 am

RichShark wrote:Do I have to remove both? I cannot find any way of finding what 'yourdomain' is on my machine so I cannot complete this part of the solution below (no instructions for this in the article):

Assuming your IP-Address on eth0 is 192.168.0.23 (check with /sbin/ifconfig) the hosts file should look like this:

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127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.0.23  rich-Evo

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

Rico · Post by **Rico** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:01 am

RichShark wrote:I have successfully set up MYOB (accounting software used a lot in Australia) to run with Wine 1.0 (on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS). I now need to be able to access the data file on another PC (Windows XP) via a network which I cannot seem to get to when using the drop down list to find the file - all I can see under 'My Computer' are: C: - fake windows drive, E: - CD drive and Z: - Linux drive.

I can see the Windows network fine using Ubuntu - Places -> Network. I cannot see my Ubuntu machine from the XP machines.

If I get you right, you have to mount the windows share in ubuntu with somthing like this (probably as root):
#mount -t smbfs "//192.168.0.1/share/" /mnt/local

After that you could run winefile or your app (as user):
$wine winefile
And you should be able to access the folder with Z:\mnt\local .

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 11:57 pm

Rico wrote:

RichShark wrote:

I have successfully set up MYOB (accounting software used a lot in Australia) to run with Wine 1.0 (on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS). I now need to be able to access the data file on another PC (Windows XP) via a network which I cannot seem to get to when using the drop down list to find the file - all I can see under 'My Computer' are: C: - fake windows drive, E: - CD drive and Z: - Linux drive.

I can see the Windows network fine using Ubuntu - Places -> Network. I cannot see my Ubuntu machine from the XP machines.

If I get you right, you have to mount the windows share in ubuntu with somthing like this (probably as root):
#mount -t smbfs "//192.168.0.1/share/" /mnt/local

After that you could run winefile or your app (as user):
$wine winefile
And you should be able to access the folder with Z:\mnt\local .

That or you may just want to give the share its own drive, which is what
I recommend.

James McKenzie

RichShark · Post by **RichShark** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 9:49 pm

Thank you for the assistance everyone. I have had a few problems...

vitamin, thank you, I have changed the hosts file accordingly (192.168.1.6) after checking with ifconfig:

rich@rich-Evo:/sbin$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:02:96:46:7e
inet addr:192.168.1.6 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::208:2ff:fe96:467e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:82556 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:45813 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:116746595 (111.3 MB) TX bytes:3984282 (3.7 MB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1574 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1574 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:78700 (76.8 KB) TX bytes:78700 (76.8 KB)

I assume inet addr:192.168.1.6 is the one to use? Does this change ever?

Rico, I tried to do what you suggested and got the following error:

rich@rich-Evo:~$ sudo mount -t smbfs "//192.168.0.1/share/" /mnt/local
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //192.168.0.1/share/,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
(for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

James, I assume to give the share its own drive I just have to change some of the above command given by Rico?

On further experimentation I have found that when I find (using Nautilus) the MYOB data file (properties show location as smb://chantelle/myob%20files/) on the Windows XP machine and double click it, it opens in MYOB (in Wine) without a problem. I have tried to 'Make link' to put a 'shortcut' on my desktop (I think) but get an error 'Error while creating link to ... The target doesn't support symbolic links.' I have tried to create a Launcher to run this file but it does not work. How can I do this? I have found that the 'links' to the network are under /home/rich/.gvfs/ where (using Nautilus and selecting 'Show Hidden Files') I can see the other 3 machines on the network (although I cannot seem to access one of them - I think it may be because it is an old laptop with Win 98 and a FAT32 file system). Network properties show locations of the network machines as smb://homenet/.....

I cannot see the .gvs part under the drop down list in MYOB...

I would prefer a Launcher or link to the MYOB file on the desktop that just opens when I double click it.

Thanks for your patience and help, any ideas would be appreciated.

Cheers Richard

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:52 pm

RichShark wrote:rich@rich-Evo:~$ sudo mount -t smbfs "//192.168.0.1/share/"

This has been "cifs" for several years now.