steve wrote:
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
Perhaps I should have mentioned, \\jupiter is a hardy machine sharing a
folder called data via samba. Is that what you mean by your first point?
And could you elaborate slightly on "serve it through a webserver"?
Cheers,
Roger
