[pmwiki-users] Links to files on a network share not working inboth IE and Firefox

[Christophe David]

> Thanks for your reply.  To answer your question, no it does not load if I
> enter it in the URL - this is the problem.  What works in Mozilla/Firefox
> is "file:///machine_name/directory_path/myfile.doc
> <file:///machine_name/directory_path/myfile.doc> " i.e. three slashes then
> the path.

You can probably use a localmap.txt containing, for example,

Whatever file:///

and then in your wiki page,

Whatever:machine_name/directory_path/myfile.doc

This will render as file:///machine_name/directory_path/myfile.doc

See http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/CustomInterMap for details.

Christophe