File links

pete.smith · Post by **pete.smith** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:30 pm

Hello
I am trying to track down why webinator isnt going into these links:

file://Depot02/rel/www/internal/foundation_services/teams/bizapps/projects/_Intranet/intranet_improvements/documents/Vision/An%20Obscure%20Test%20of%20the%20Search%20Engine.doc

So that is a file link ( I have file protocol checked in all walk) but do I need to flag Depot02 (thats the UNC path) somehow ? In the list edit page for the parent page, those file links are all greyed out (not links) like the http ones so I dont think it followed into them.

pete.smith · Post by **pete.smith** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:45 pm

maybe I add depot02 to my extra domains list? Does it think that this is a different domain?

Post by **mark** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:38 pm

On windows you can access remote files directly using paths like that. On unix you need to mount the filesystem and access is using "localhost" and the path to the mount. Or you can add calls to <urlcp fileroot MOUNTPOINT> (see http://www.thunderstone.com/site/vortexman/node139.html) to make the windows unc path work with the mounted filesystem.

Then you also need to add depot2 as an extra domain.

pete.smith · Post by **pete.smith** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 10:30 am

SO I just add that urlcp call to my dowalk? Where is a good place to put that?

Post by **mark** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 11:11 am

Right after the <urlcp filenonlocal unc> call would be good. So if you have depot2 mounted under /mnt you would use <urlcp fileroot /mnt>