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Browser link to Windows share in Ubuntu and OS X

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Mar 15, 20262930 views
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In Windows, I am able to create a bookmark in any browser to a file on a network share, like so: This works well in Windows because it avoids needing a complicated content server to serve up basic pages. The bigger reason is that it's a corporate network and we can't have a web server. Is there a w…

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file://network/path/to/file/example.htm

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Fix for: Browser link to Windows share in Ubuntu and OS X

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Windows shares use the SMB protocol for file sharing. To use such shares in Linux, you must have installed the package sambe-client. To expose such shares from your computer, you need sambe-server. The syntax for a shared file is . Not all browsers …

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