referring to a file on the local network by name?

[Bob Sneidar]

never mind I just tried it. No workie. It should though.

Bob


On Feb 5, 2014, at 18:52 , Bob Sneidar <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com> wrote:

> 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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