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File URI not working correctly [message #710264]

Thu, 04 August 2011 21:24

CrypticMetaphor88

Messages: 2
Registered: August 2011

Junior Member

My brother and I are working on a small project in Windows, we almost always work on a LAN network and I'm currently working on setting up a distributed svn that allows us to share files, merge code, etc.

I'm trying to clone a project form another computer via EGit and I only want to use the "file" protocol, because it's the simplest and easiest. I specifically don't want to use anything else because we are working on a lan and security is not an issue.

The problem is that if I try to clone a project with the file protocol and I fill in the URI with the following:

file:///MyComp/C:/wsShared/repository

I get an error in the upper left part of my screen saying:

C:\eclipse\.\MyComp/C:/wsShared/repository does not exist.

Where is the "C:\eclipse." coming from? shouldn't the file URI scheme allow me to connect to another computer?

Thank you for your time.

Cheers,

Cryptic.

[Updated on: Thu, 04 August 2011 21:25]

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Re: File URI not working correctly [message #710697 is a reply to message #710264]

Fri, 05 August 2011 10:16

Manuel Doninger

Messages: 119
Registered: October 2010

Senior Member

I think the url should be file://///MyComp/sharename/wsShared/repository where sharename is the name of your shared folder on the computer. C: would be the drive letter of a local drive, so you can't use drive letters if you want to access network shares of another computer.

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