The \\computername\sharedfolder\resource syntax is UNC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Naming_Convention
Java has terribly inconsistent support for UNC. (mostly due to slash escaping bugs) It's far more reliable to mount your share, and reference it via the mount point. - Joakim nicolas de loof wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like my managed repository to be stored on a file server. I can > acces it > using a smb share : \\servfichier\Maven_Repository\public > The URL file://///servfichier/Maven_Repository/public/ works well to > acces > it > > When I configure Archiva using this path, the artifact request fails > in the > DAVRepository class. > The constructor of this class builds an URI from the File. From > \\servfichier\Maven_Repository\public as a File, the URI is > file:/servfichier/Maven_Repository/public/ that is invalid. > > This URI is built using the JRE File class and it's toURI() and > normalize() > methods. So I don't know if I missunderstood the use of windows-share > under > Java. > > All this relates to class from it.could.webdav, so maybe this is not the > best place to ask for this... >
