Bug? Link to network file/dir does not work

Bug? Link to network file/dir does not work

[Wanrong Lin]

Hi,

On my Windows machine, I tried to access a link like this from my org file:

file://host/dir/file_name

It does not work. The error message says:
"ShellExecute failed: The system cannot find the file specified.^M"
(Note the "^M" at the end)

I also tried the back slash version:
file:\\host\dir\file_name

Same result.

On a Linux machine, the above does not work either, but the behavior is 
different. Emacs will just create a buffer with a path 
"/host/dir/file_name" on the local machine.

I am using Org 5.23a on Emacs 22.2 (just upgraded :-))

Thanks for looking into this.

Wanrong

Re: Bug? Link to network file/dir does not work

[Thomas Baumann]

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

Re: Re: Bug? Link to network file/dir does not work

[Wanrong Lin]

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.

Wanrong

Re: Re: Bug? Link to network file/dir does not work

[Xiao-Yong Jin]

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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Re: Re: Bug? Link to network file/dir does not work

[Wanrong Lin]

> 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
>   

Thanks. Good to know tramp links work, as I am sure I will need it sometime.

I have tried to use SSH/Tramp on Windows but the set-up is a challenge 
(putty does not work as a "ssh" replacement, and Cygwin ssh does not 
work either) . If you have a set up working on Windows, I would be glad 
to hear about it.

But still, even with SSH/Tramp working, I still think ideally whatever 
path that Windows file explorer accepts should work in org-mode too. 
Emacs already does so. If on Windows you do "C-x C-f" on a path 
"\\host\dir\file_name", there is no problem.

Wanrong