[pmwiki-users] problem on reference local files

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 09:22:29AM +0100, Giorgio Malaspina wrote:
>    Hello,
>     
>    I've a problem... I'm using PmWiki in order to collect documentation, but
>    in order to avoid duplicate files already stored on a file server I want
>    to link to these files without move to another server.
>    My idea is to point to these ones in the following way:
>     
>    file://servername/directory/file.doc
>     
>    I already use this with another wiky (OddMuse, that I want to substitute
>    whith PmWiki...)
>    Now, I've tried to use this notation but doesn't works... I've tried also
>     
>    file:///servername/directory/file.doc
>     
>    but the result is the same...
>     
>    Any idea about that?  Is necessary a particular setup?

The file:... notation is supposed to work just fine in PmWiki --
see http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/FileMarkup.

Is it not becoming a link at all, or is the problem simply that
the link is going to the wrong place?

Pm