How to bring Windows mapped drive in linux wine

[Carlo Jongen]

Hi,

I've just started with Linux and I'm having a problem. Hopefully someone can help me with this.

I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 and wine 1.5.19 on a IntelMacPro ( Slave ).
On this Mac ( slave ) I'm running some Windows programs ( Lightwave: lwsn.exe and eyeon fusion: renderslave.exe ).
This seems to work, but these programs need to access some Windows mapped drives ( like x: y: and z: to be precise ) on an other machine ( a Master running Win7 64bit ).
Does anybody know how to get windows mapped drives into wine ( ~/.wine/dosdevices/ )?

So these programs can access the mapped drives.

I'm looking all over the net for answers but I can't seem to get this to work. Anybody know the answer?
But remember I'm a Linux Dummy :-/

Thanks in advance...

With my best regards,
Carlo

[Carlo Jongen]

Hi,

I've just started with Linux and I'm having a problem. I've posted this question also in the network section with no success. Hopefully someone here can help me with this.

I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 and wine 1.5.19 on a IntelMacPro ( Slave ).
On this Mac ( slave ) I'm running some Windows programs ( Lightwave: lwsn.exe and eyeon fusion: renderslave.exe ).
This seems to work, but these programs need to access some Windows mapped drives ( like x: y: and z: to be precise ) on an other machine ( a Master running Win7 64bit ).
Does anybody know how to get windows mapped drives into wine ( ~/.wine/dosdevices/ )?

So these programs can access the mapped drives.

I'm looking all over the net for answers but I can't seem to get this to work. Anybody know the answer?
But remember I'm a Linux Dummy :-/

Thanks in advance...

With my best regards,
Carlo

[Carlo Jongen]

Hi,

I've just started with Linux and I'm having a problem. I've posted this question also in the network and wine section with no success. Hopefully someone here can help me with this.

I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 and wine 1.5.19 on a IntelMacPro ( Slave ).
On this Mac ( slave ) I'm running some Windows programs ( Lightwave: lwsn.exe and eyeon fusion: renderslave.exe ).
This seems to work, but these programs need to access some Windows mapped drives ( like x: y: and z: to be precise ) on an other machine ( a Master running Win7 64bit ).
Does anybody know how to get windows mapped drives into wine ( ~/.wine/dosdevices/ )?

So these programs can access the mapped drives.

I'm looking all over the net for answers but I can't seem to get this to work. Anybody know the answer?
But remember I'm a Linux Dummy :-/

Thanks in advance...

With my best regards,
Carlo

[Toz]

Merging duplicate threads into one thread. Please do not create duplicate threads for the same issue, it dilutes community effort.

[Toz]

Please refer to this wiki for information on mounting cifs shares (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ComprehensiveSambaGuide). Once you have them properly mounted, you can run:

winecfg

...and on the "Drives" tab, set up your wine drive mappings to point to the cifs mappings you created earlier.

[Carlo Jongen]

Sorry for the duplicate threads but I was getting a bit frustrated not being able to figure this one out after so many day's of research.


Many thanks for the hints, when I followed these steps I could manage to set-up these mapped drives in Linux. And I've managed to do a test render with the Linux machine. I even have the feeling it renders much faster than in Windows.


Aldo there are 3 issues I would like to address before I call this thread Solved.


Issue 1/
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When the machine boots up it makes a connection with all the mapped drives. But doing so all the mapped drives open up ( pop up ) in a window ( explorer ) folder on the desktop.
Is there a way to mount them in the background without all the windows popping up all over the desktop?


Issue 2/
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I have the program RenderSlave.exe in the “Start-up Applications” tool. But apparently this program boots before the Network is ready. Therefore it can't find it's license on the Network.
Is there a way to delay this Start-up or to be able to start this application only after the network is ready?


Issue 3/
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Very view times when I booted the machine the next issue occurred:

It didn't pop up the windows folders of the mapped drives like in “Issue 1”. So when I went to the Home Folder and then clicked in the Network section on the “name of the shared map” I got the next message:

“Unable to mount “name of the shared map”
mount: only root can mount//192.168.2.2/”name of the shared map” on/media/winshares/”name of the shared map”


How come most of the times it works fine and the next thing you know it can't because of an permission issue?


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I believe that if these issues are solved then I'm one step ahead of changing my Windows based render farm into a Linux one. Really appreciate the help I'm getting here in the Ubuntu Forums.


Thanks to you all...