[Moin-user] Re: How to embed links to files, rather than the files themselves?

[Matthew Wilson]

On Wed Oct 20 12:23:50 2004, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 20/10/04 Matthew Wilson did say:
>
>> Followup: I discovered that 
>> 
>>     [file://metrix/hds1/123files/hds/TAPELOG.XLS tapelog]
>> 
>> works fine in IE, but not in firefox.  I suspect that this is some kind
>> of mime type issue.
>
> Most likely, //metrix is a windows share, which is why it works in IE.
> Firefox, rightly so, ignores such non-standard nonsense. 

Metrix is a Red Hat linux server, using NFS (I think).


> Make it available on a web server, and link to it that way. 

No can do.  Is there any way to link to a file on a file server?

Matt