links to smb: url in wiki

links to smb: url in wiki

by John Rodkey -
Number of replies: 3
Didn't see this topic addressed anywhere, so apologies if
it's been dealt with.

I'm trying to add links that refer to files on an SMB share,
something like smb://server/share/path/filename
doing what came naturally,
(leftbracket) title (vertical bar) smb://server/share/path/filename (rightbracket)
Didn't recognize the URL type.

I'm using ewiki now, but I presume this would be addressed by dfwiki as well.

Hm.  Investigating this with  Firefox on windows & linux, and the smb://  syntax didn't seem to be recognized , although it is with IE on Windows and appears to work on the Macintosh.  Perhaps there's a standardized
way of accessing smb shares through a browser of which I'm not aware?

John
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Re: links to smb: url in wiki

by Ludo (Marc Alier) -
HI,
the dfwiki parser automatically creates a link for the web adresses (starting with http ) we did'nt consider the smb protocol as one to be parsed.
A solution to your porblem would be to use html editor pages and create there the links directly. With dfwiki you can choose wich markup languages (dfwiki ewiki htmleditor )  when you create the page.
Regards
Ludo
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Re: links to smb: url in wiki

by John Rodkey -
Thanks.  I'll probably work around it by making a local smb file mount.
Apparently web browsers differ in how they handle the smb:// protocol.
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Re: links to smb: url in wiki

by Martin Dougiamas -
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Linking to local files is widely considered to be a security hazard so the browsers are all dropping it. Pity.