Hey..Im new :D
Im trying to run WideFS on a RedHat 9.0 machine via WINE emulator. Its taken me three days hard work to get as far as I have, so dont tell me its not gonna work. ITS GONNA WORK!!! :D
Everything is installed correctly, as far as I can tell. I start FS on my Xp machine, and then run WideFS. WideFS connects correctly (though it says that it is waiting for connection for about 1/2 a second every say...4 - 5 seconds.
Then I try FSGarmin or FSFlightMax. Both tell me (in different words) that they cannot find the session that FS is running.
The Linux firewall is down. My personal firewall is down. I have recompiled the linux machine to read NTFS volumes. FSFlightmax/FSGarmin have been installed correctly as Remote mode. I am using FSFlightMax remote for FSFlightmax. I have mounted the FS2002 share on my Linux machine using this command:
mount -t smbfs -o username=Anthony,password=(never you mind :D),rw //Anthonys/FS2002 /usr/share/wine-c/FS2002
I know that this has been mounted correctly. I have checked and rechecked, using file editing and renaming.
My network is working correctly. Both machines can access each other and the internet. There are no security barriers that affect their communication as far as I know. The only thing possible would be write protection, and Im confident that has been disabled.
The protocol is TCP/IPv4.
I only really have one conclusion left: Linux uses a program called Samba to access Windows shares. Window shares its file using a protocol called SMB. I suspect the protocol that Samba uses is a bit different, or works in a different way, just enough to throw things out of kilter.
Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks
Anthony
note: Sorry for cross posting..but this does belong both in this forum and in the FSFlightmax/FSGarmin one. I dont know which program is at fault here.