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From: Xiao-Yong Jin <xj2106@columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: Re: Bug? Link to network file/dir does not work
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:45:53 -0400
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Wanrong Lin <wanrong.lin@gmail.com> writes:

> T
> Thomas Baumann wrote:
>> Wanrong Lin <wanrong.lin@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>   
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On my Windows machine, I tried to access a link like this from my org file:
>>>
>>> file://host/dir/file_name
>>>     
>>
>> shouldn't that be 
>>
>> file://host:/dir/file_name
>>
>> note the second colon after host.
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>>   
> Tried that (on windows), does not work either. The error message is:
> "No such file:  file://host:/dir/file_name"
>
> I thought ideally whatever file path that is acceptable by the OS
> should be usable in org mode.

If tramp/ssh works for you, the following link definitely
works, at least for me.

file:///ssh:remote.host:path/to/the/file


Xiao-Yong
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