referring to a file on the local network by name?

[Bob Sneidar]

hmmm… can you not use something like smb://sharepoint/subfolder/subfolder2 etc? Apple uses AFP in place of SMB. 

Bob


On Feb 5, 2014, at 11:10 , Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a "clean" way to refer to a shared file on another machine by name?
> 
> For example, on mac, the file central.local:/Users/joe/joesfile.txt
> 
> could end up in /Volumes/joe/joesfile.txt, or /Volumes/joe-1/joesfile.txt,
> depending upon how many times the connection had been made.
> 
> I can see hacky ways to parse the contents of volumes, but it would be nice
> to just be able to do things like
> 
>   put theList into url "file:central.local:/Users/joe/joesfile.txt"
> 
> or some such.
> 
> The context is that the client files and output should land on the server,
> not the local machine.
> 
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