If you are on a Windows network, things may work more simply if you can map the file server to a drive letter. Depending on your JVM implementation and OS specifics, you may have more or less success using URIs to point to UNC names.
I use Directory to serve NFS mounted files all the time from Linux and Apple, but of course this lends itself to straightforward mapping to the file:// protocol. On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 5:40 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can Directory be used to serve files that are located on a file server > separate from the web server? I'm thinking that with the restriction to > using the file:// protocol, that I may run into troubles.... >