On April 11, 2005 05:15 am, fuerst@xxxxxx wrote: > Hi List > > I got following problem: > I have an old accounting software. It runs at the moment on a > NT4.0 System which access the program itself on a samba share. > I tried to get this application running under Linux with wine. > When I copy the whole folder from the file server to the local > filesystem (ext2), it works well with wine (tested with > 20050111 and 20050310). But when I mount the share into my > drive_c to the correct path (drive_c/KWIN in my case) and > start the accounting software, the problems are starting. It > starts up but after providing the password it fails to open > the database where the data is stored. The application uses a > Paradox-Engine from Borland btw. > How is it possible that it works when all the files are on a > local fs but not when they are on a share? I tested NFS and > Samba, both fail, changing the behaviour of wine also did not > help (e.g. switching it to nt40). The filesystem on the > fileserver is ext3 but I think this definitely should not > matter. > > Any idea? My boss reported that it once worked with this set > up but with an older version of wine, I unfortunately don't > know which version it was. Don't know, but one possibility is region locking. Unless something has changed while I wasn't looking, the SMB filesystem client doesn't handle locking and so the requests won't work. Your boss might be talking about a version of Wine from before it supported the locking sufficiently well and so it only worked by accident. > > thank you very much > > Fuerst -- Bill Medland mailto:billmedland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://webhome.idirect.com/~kbmed _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
