TC running on Wine / Bottles on Linux Mint

[kobusven95]

Hi Guys
I was wondering - is there a way to access the network via TC running through Bottles on Linux Mint 20?
When I click on "Net", "Network Connections", nothing happens.
This would be great if I can access it, as I work between a number of computers, with data shared on a central server.
Regards

[ghisler(Author)]

You can't access UNC paths like \\server\share directly from Wine.

What you normally do is mount the SMB share to directory in Linux, and then access that directory from Wine.
Something like this:

sudo mount -t cifs -o username=USER,password=PASS //server/sharename /mnt/sharepath

You need to create /mnt/sharepath first and set appropriate permissions.

[kobusven95]

Hi

Thank you for the feedback.

To mount on Mint 21 I used the following:
sudo mount -t cifs //IP or HostName/share_name /mnt/mount_path -o user=user_name
However - the mount points still does not show up inside TC.
Only the standard c: and z: (root) drives shows.

[Dalai]

Mounting shares this way won't create another drive (how could it?). However, since Z: is the root by default, you'll find your mounted share in Z:\mnt\mount_path.

Regards
Dalai

[kobusven95]

Jip, that is what I thought as well - but /mnt is not available. Will check to see why not, most probably a security issue. Thanks - I think that will solve the issue. As someone else said - there is only 1 TC.

[ghisler(Author)]

Did you mount the share directly to /mnt, or a subfolder? It seems that Wine can't see mounted file system at the root level like /mnt.

[kobusven95]

I was honestly about to give up on this - but then - Linux have a think called symbolic links ... I created sym links for the mounts on the remote server, as well as a sym link to my "Documents" folder, as that was also unavailable, and whalah!!!! I am syncing data as I would normally do it in Windows! Thanks again Christian for TC.