Geoff Canyon wrote: > > At 10:15 PM -0600 10/27/01, Josh Dye wrote: > >> > >> ... and this should be `file://Ws2/c/chat/chat.txt', you know that. > > > > > >No, I don't know that... Why does it have to be the other slahes? > > > >The \\ws1\c acceses another computer on the network. The rest of it is just > >normal to Windows. > > First, Revolution _always_ uses slashes in paths. On the Mac it translates to ":" >(use : to get a slash in a file or folder name). On the PC, it translates to "\" > > As for the server reference, if anyone knows how to get this to work, I'd like to >know how -- I was unable to get a PC reference to another machine on the network to >work directly. I made it work by mapping the server to a local drive, and then >referencing that. But is there a direct way?
This is something I don't understand, you want to access a drive on another computer as if it was a local drive? I didn't know Windows does that. Isn't there some sort of file sharing mechanism (protocol) in between? > > regards, > > Geoff Andu
