Le Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:32:09 -0700, Bill Medland a écrit : > 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. > I think you are right about the wine side . Though i know i disabled locking on the samba side one day. Sorry i don't remind how, i guess it was veto, oplock . Sorry again i can just point you to the samba ReadTheFineManual ... Regards Alban _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
