On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 15:12 +1300, Roger Searle wrote: > Hi, I have mediawiki running and want to link to an html file sitting on > a different machine, I have resolved this for windows machines running > both IE and Firefox (which requires the LinkLocal add-on to get working) > yet not managed to figure out the right syntax on linux clients > generally (or even if it is possible). Unsuccessful so far for both > Firefox (with LinkLocal add-on) or Konqueror, having tried numerous > syntax options/combinations - and come up blank (well, gone round in > circles) in google. > > Under Windows, Firefox opens the link only via a right click on the link > to access the "Open Link In Local Context" options provided by the > LinkLocal add-on, which I can live with, and requires the 5 forward > slashes after file: (where as IE doesn't care). Also, Windows browsers > don't care whether the path slashes are forwards or backwards. > > Syntax of the link is of this form: > > [file://///jupiter\data\path\to\index.html Link Text] > > (being the share \\jupiter\data\) > > Both Firefox and Konqueror complain that > ///jupiter/data/path/to/index.html do not exist. > > Has anyone solved how to get this working for Firefox under linux? (and > that still works for the windows clients) Running v3.6 which LinkLocal > add-on states is supported. > > Regards > Roger > > > Wouldn't it be simpler to either share the resource ( samba? ), or serve it through a webserver?
Cheers, Steve -- Steve Holdoway <[email protected]> http://www.greengecko.co.nz MSN: [email protected] GPG Fingerprint = B337 828D 03E1 4F11 CB90 853C C8AB AF04 EF68 52E0
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