Open Network Folder - does it work?

[signal]

I like that there is a feature of an icon next to each space, where you can click on it and its suppose to allow you to open a CIFS connection to the space.  The URL tag it gives is file://///servernamea/spacename

That does not seem to work in vista or osx.  I can goto smb://servername/alfresco just fine so I know its working, I can use IP address or name.

What is needed to get it to work with "file://///"?

[josw]

got the same problem.
Maybe the two extra "/"  are needed to avoid interpreting the following "/" ?
My guess is that it somehow was forgotten during software engeneering process.
Whatever, I wouldn't be surprised if there is nothing we can do about it, except for wating for bug fixing.

[mikeh]

The format is correct.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa767731(VS.85).aspx

My guess is that it somehow was forgotten during software engeneering process.
Whatever, I wouldn't be surprised if there is nothing we can do about it, except for wating for bug fixing.

Hey! You're right… please make sure the Mozilla guys hurry up with the fix!
http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?locale=it&comments_parentId=186680&forumId=1

Mike

[josw]

Hi Mike,
Thx for the quick response!
Looking forward to it. 😛

[signal]

Ok, let me clarify.

This is with Internet Explorer under IE.

Simply putting file://172.16.1.51 works fine for me.
putting in file://TREBLEA does not.

I think the path being given by Alfresco is likely fine, but for whatever reason the box is not broadcasting its hostname information, and I am not sure why.  It does not show up in network neighborhood.  The workgroup is set fine.  If I do an nmblookup it does not show up, unless I unicast the nmblookup directly to the box like:

nmblookup -U 172.16.1.51 \* -S

so it seems to have to do with the browsing/notification parts of it giving out its hostname to the broadcast address.