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Emailing 'file:' URLs to both PC and Mac users
Authored by: adrianm on Aug 25, '05 02:08:47PM
On the Mac, you can also have a URL like this:

smb://servername/share/path/to/file.txt
Basically, the same as the Windows one but with smb: instead of file:.

The volume will mount and the file open in the Finder, which is closer to what a Windoze machine would do.

Also, to send such a link (eg hello.txt on the desktop) to a Windoze user for a file on your mac, ensure Windows Sharing is on, then send a URL like:


smb://macname/username/Desktop/hello.txt


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