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....
>

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