I found that firefox will work, if you enter an extra / in the address, so typically in IE, this would work:
file://\\servername\folder\index.html
But in firefox, use this:
file:///\\servername\folder\index.html
Firefox will change all the slashes to go the same way, but it will still find the file.
I am using Firefox 2.0.0.3.
By the way -- adding an extra / also works in IE (I'm using IE7).
Hope this helps.
Juan Lanus-2 wrote:
An UNC address of a file, like
\\servername\folder\index.html
does not work. This is a legal file path and Firefox rewrites it thus:
file://///servername/folder/index.html
Amaya also rewrites the address in a way that never reaches the seeked file, something like:
C:\servername\folder\index.html
Also, entering the file rewritten by Firefox does not brings the data but a "Not Found" error.
All operating systems can read UNC files, including Windows.
Juan Lanus
TECNOSOL
Argentina
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