Got a little slack time and loaded a copy of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS  both the 32 bit and the 64 bit flavors. 

Some of the base configuration of samba file sharing to talk to windows machines had to be configured to talk to my network address range, but when that was done, and wine, winbind samba and cifs were all configured, a wonderful thing happened

They fixed whatever was not handling the windows name resolution for certain avimark modules, which caused an ubuntu/wine station to fail without first doing an explicit file system mount.

Now I can just navigate to the avimark directory using the normal file browser, and click on avimark and go.

I can finally have an ubuntu workstation run Avimark peer to peer from a windows or a linux server without having to have any special commands or scripts to mount the file share.

What this means is that xp workstations can now be converted and used as avimark workstations running Ubuntu, without having to make any changes to an office's server/network configuration. 

Good way to dip your toe into the water.. it finally works