Question

I would like to link to a shared directory off of my TWiki page. I can link to webpages, but I would like to open an explorer window off of my TWiki page. I have tried permutations around [ [ \\server\directory\directory ][ link to the shared directory ] ]. (Spacing such that the format can be seen.)

I'm not sure how to do this. I'm not even sure what to search on. Using key words like explorer, windows explorer, shared directory, twiki, returns no real results.

Has anyone done this and could give me some pointers or thoughts?

Thanks for your help. --gloria

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-- GloriaUrbanic - 02 Feb 2007

Answer

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It can be done using SlashFilenamePlugin , it should work on your TWiki release. Or you can try the file://server/directory/filename approach, as long as there are no spaces in your filenames (which kind of rules out most Windows servers). I've always found it odd, btw, that TWiki doesn't have something like this built in.

-- JosMaccabiani - 02 Feb 2007

I couldn't get the file://server/directory/filename approach to work, but it looks like that Plugin is what I need. I will post under a new question if I have trouble with that. Thanks!

-- GloriaUrbanic - 02 Feb 2007