# WINE on Linux

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/wine-on-linux/35482>\
**Category:** Application Platform\
**Created:** [February 16, 2021, 6:06pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/wine-on-linux/35482 "2021-02-16T18:06:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![HANS-CHRISTOPH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5daacb/32.png) [@HANS-CHRISTOPH](https://forums.suse.com/u/HANS-CHRISTOPH)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 6:06pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/wine-on-linux/35482/1 "2021-02-16T18:06:17Z")

</div>

The Wine team couldn’t help…  
We use WINE to run C5, a book keeping program on Linux. This works in fact well. One problem, the database need to be on the server, not in wine, not in linux. But whatever I do, wine produce virtual drives in stead of using database on server. How can I get wine to access the database on the network server?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![malcolmlewis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/malcolmlewis/32/11375_2.png) [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 7:20pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/wine-on-linux/35482/2 "2021-02-16T19:20:39Z")

</div>

@HANS-CHRISTOPH Hi, so are you mounting the drive on the guest system and then mapping this folder to wine?  
Have a read here: [https://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/linux/faq/smbmount](https://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/linux/faq/smbmount)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![HANS-CHRISTOPH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5daacb/32.png) [@HANS-CHRISTOPH](https://forums.suse.com/u/HANS-CHRISTOPH)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 7:55am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/wine-on-linux/35482/3 "2021-02-18T07:55:21Z")

</div>

Hi Malcolm, yes, drives are mounted of course. I thried under installation of C5 in Wine to define, it has to use the external drive. But Wine just generated a new virtual path. Maybe I need to check again…

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![malcolmlewis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/malcolmlewis/32/11375_2.png) [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 1:28pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/wine-on-linux/35482/4 "2021-02-18T13:28:32Z")

</div>

@HANS-CHRISTOPH Hi, you might wat to give codeweavers crossover office a try out (free trial), in some cases I’ve seen better results (and what I use here for my own system).

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![HANS-CHRISTOPH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5daacb/32.png) [@HANS-CHRISTOPH](https://forums.suse.com/u/HANS-CHRISTOPH)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2021, 9:36am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/wine-on-linux/35482/5 "2021-03-04T09:36:17Z")

</div>

thanks. I will try. found some options in the program as well