Native Wine File Browser (to get Linksys QuickVPN working)

[jmjohn]

Hey all,

I'm looking for a native wine file browser that will accept UNC pathnames like \\10.10.10.10.2. I've tried winefile but that doesn't allow UNC pathnames.

I'm trying to look through a VPN I've set up with the Linksys QuickVPN client under wine. Nautilus and Konqueror know nothing of the wine-created tunnel, so I have to look through it some other way.

I know this can be done ( http://joey.ubuntu-rocks.org/blog/2007/11/29/linksys-quickvpn-under-gutsy/ ) but I'm just looking for the file browser to look through it.

Thanks,
glass.dimly

[cogadh]

Is there a reason you have to use a VPN client through Wine and can't just use one of the Linux native ones? Using Wine would seem to add an extra measure of frustration that just isn't necessary.

[jmjohn]

Yeah, I've definitely tried the native Linux VPN clients as described here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VPNClient .

I can't get them to work by plugging in the username and password provided by my wife's tech guy. I can't generate a .pem file because I don't have access to the router.

However, QuickVPN under wine connects and creates the tunnel, I just can't browse through it.

So, does anyone know of a wine file browser that will accept UNC pathnames like \\10.10.10.10.2?

Thanks,
glass.dimly

[asdfoo]

UNC paths are for SMB networking (samba) which Wine doesn't handle yet

The only workaround is to mount/connect them outside of Wine then configure them as a drive letter in winecfg to access the contents.

[jmjohn]

If I were able to mount the drive I wouldn't need to use a wine-installed VPN client. I want to go the other way, that is, make Nautilus aware of a wine VPN client.

Again, I need to look through a VPN tunnel created by a wine-installed VPN client. My problem could be solved in three ways, as I see it:

Make Nautilus aware of the VPN tunnel
Install a file broswer in wine that would be privy to the same information that windows explorer were privy to
Figure out how to set up the VPN with a native linux app.


Can anyone help me with either of the first two?

Thanks,
glass.dimly

[wsonar]

Is there a reason you have to use a VPN client through Wine and can't just use one of the Linux native ones? Using Wine would seem to add an extra measure of frustration that just isn't necessary.

I would love to find a nortel alternative that's open-source

that's what we use at my job

[jmjohn]

Hey all,

Does anyone have any idea how I might go about this? Still searchin...

[CescG]

Hey all,

Does anyone have any idea how I might go about this? Still searchin...


Hi JmJohon

Have same problem here. Do you solve it ?

[jmjohn]

No solution yet. Anyone?

[startlinuxtoday]

LISTEN UP there if you are still there....
problem.... enable some sort of networking for file access between 2 devices where the devices are NOT of the same ip/mask!!

your attempts to use vpn via router and msos have serious comptibility and issues especially with msos updates forever and a day.

SOLUTION.... webmin.