What is this icon? Is it a .BAT file? An UNIX shell script? A typical Windows link file? You need to instruct your system to run the exe with Wine. So not: M:\FOXR.EXE IM000.FXP -1 -CC:\FXCFG -T +X But instead: wine M:\FOXR.EXE IM000.FXP -1 -CC:\FXCFG -T +X Instead of adding the whole M: thing you can also cd to the network share directory and run wine FOXR.EXE there instead. Sometimes this fixes working path issues that applications might have.