From robert.meerman at gmail.com  Thu Feb 14 05:08:49 2008
From: robert.meerman at gmail.com (Robert Jason Meerman)
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:08:49 +0000
Subject: [Locallink] file:// links for samba shares?
Message-ID: <1003713a0802140508r179b2672ya0145b7534b1a935@mail.gmail.com>

Hey Michael,

First, thanks very much for writing the LocalLink extension - it's
very useful for browsing local Doxygen output!

I've got a problem using it on a coorporate network though. We have a
wiki-web where we want to link to files kept on a Samba share (e.g.
\\hostmachine\path\to\file) but nothing seems to happen when I use
LocalLink to open such a link. The link contains a space in it (which
is turned into a %20 by the wiki engine, so the href= contains this),
does that matter?

The HTML shows the link in question to be like so:

file:////host/path/to/a%20folder/containing/myfile.txt

Is there an error log somewhere I can view to get more data for you?

Regards,
RobM

From vkleinschmidt at gmail.com  Fri Feb 15 10:50:01 2008
From: vkleinschmidt at gmail.com (Volker Kleinschmidt)
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:50:01 -0600
Subject: [Locallink] file:// links for samba shares?
In-Reply-To: <1003713a0802140508r179b2672ya0145b7534b1a935@mail.gmail.com>
References: <1003713a0802140508r179b2672ya0145b7534b1a935@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <1bf788020802151050m612d9c92q11d7f54367a9e040@mail.gmail.com>

The file: URLs with UNC paths require five forward slashes in Firefox
- the standard is a bit spongy on this subject. Two for separating the
protocol from the servername, one to indicate the local server's root,
and then two for starting the UNC path itself. The one for the local
root is not required by all browsers, thus you'll see differing syntax
for file: URLs throughout the web, but on Firefox/Mozilla it has
always been required.

--Volker

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Robert Jason Meerman
<robert.meerman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Michael,
>
>  First, thanks very much for writing the LocalLink extension - it's
>  very useful for browsing local Doxygen output!
>
>  I've got a problem using it on a coorporate network though. We have a
>  wiki-web where we want to link to files kept on a Samba share (e.g.
>  \\hostmachine\path\to\file) but nothing seems to happen when I use
>  LocalLink to open such a link. The link contains a space in it (which
>  is turned into a %20 by the wiki engine, so the href= contains this),
>  does that matter?
>
>  The HTML shows the link in question to be like so:
>
>  file:////host/path/to/a%20folder/containing/myfile.txt
>
>  Is there an error log somewhere I can view to get more data for you?
>
>  Regards,
>  RobM
>  _______________________________________________
>  LocalLink mailing list
>  LocalLink at mozdev.org
>  https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/locallink
>



-- 
Volker Kleinschmidt
Senior Support Engineer
Blackboard Client Support