On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Roger Searle <[email protected]> wrote: > 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"?
you know a webserver, like one normally serves html pages with! Then you link via http://webserveraddress/path/to/file.html
