dosbox 0.73

Why?

Because that's the most 'up-to-date version ever possible' in the Ubuntu repository.

indeed. the why is unecessary.

tried using v 0.74 as well. same problem

Build 0.74 from sources, and debug the mounting. Nothing special in there.

Specific to samba or do NFS things fail as well ?

wd. i can't say that i understand the intention of your posts. perhaps, if you are so skilled, you could reproduce the error and enlighten us all.

i'm an end-user, not a programmer

i downloaded and built 0.74 from sources, following instructions. i've also tried with the megabuild 5.

i'll test for nfs shares tomorrow

wd. i can't say that i understand the intention of your posts.

Don't reopen every samba related post next time, and if you do, at least take the time to READ them.

mount c \\computer\share does not work.
mount c \\computer\share\subdirectory does.

stat doesn't play along.

A suggestion for somebody who knows this code better than me (only tested on Windows):

So stat \\computer\share does not work? Does stat \\computer\share\
work any better? Or \\computer\share\. if that works at all.

i'm lost.

i've searched extensively for posts relating to dosbox mounting samba shares, with keywords cifs and smbfs, linux, unix, ubuntu.
on the whole net i found 2 entries, one of them in these formus, which was not resolved. the other refers to a different virtual box.

so wd, if you can point me to other posts, please do. i don't get your references, its all a bit cryptic.

h-a-l, is what you are saying for me? what is that file?

No it's not for you.

Ah, stat(\\computer\share\) works.

Seems offtopic in this thread though.

hmm treating it as a root directory

i have the same problem... in a previous version of dosbox, that i can't say which, i worked well... but now, not anymore..
someone to help???
thanks

Same problem here.

I want to store every of my files used by dosbox on my nas. It's being mounted to /mnt/nas, and everything else van access it, except dosbox.
I've also tried the "\\computer\share" access method, without any success. Also tried with + \subdirectory.

Is there any workaround to it? Because I'm using lts ubuntu, the version of dosbox sure won't change for loong time, and I don't want to change to non-lts in the future.

think I once debugged it on irc.
Problem was some mount flag when mounting your nas in ubuntu.
serverino or noserverino was the solution. Not sure which one.

Thanks for the info, it's great now.
The correct one is noserverino.

By the way, I'm hoping this doesn't effect anything else 😀

it's not a dosbox bug that you are working around with that switch.