Question

Is it possible to put a link to a Windows share in a Twiki page? For example, just like how we link [[http://www.google.com]] to get http://www.google.com, I would like to have a direct link to \\myserver\myfolder in the network so that people can just click that link and access the shared windows directory on \\myserver.

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-- ChengappaCB - 11 May 2007

Answer

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Use [[file:////myserver/myfolder/file]] instead.

-- RobHill - 14 May 2007

Marking as answered

-- CrawfordCurrie - 14 May 2007

Thank you. This solves my problem. Just an extension of the problem: If my file name consists of spaces, then how do I enter that? Twiki takes the name only up to the fisrt space...

-- ChengappaCB - 15 May 2007

If the folder name and/or the file name has spaces, how do I link it ?

-- ChengappaCB - 15 May 2007

I think I got it! I used [[file://Myserver/myfolder/my file.xls][my file]] and it is perfect! Thanks to all of you. I love Twiki

-- ChengappaCB - 15 May 2007

%20 is the proper way to escape a space in a URL. Example: [[file://Myserver/myfolder/my%20file.xls][my file]]

-- PeterThoeny - 15 May 2007