On 14/11/10 01:20, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 13:08 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> Very interesting. I created a blank "home page" in Firefox, copied >> it to file:///mnt/srvr1/index.html and made that the opening page. >> That worked on this F-13 box and was accessible on the F-14 too. >> Then I thought I'd try Opera on the F-14 computer but anything I did >> caused Opera to choke on that address, it kept inserting "localhost" >> and I had to keep killing it. > file:/// is the same thing as file://localhost/ > > It's construed of file:// as protocol and separating punctuation, > following be hostname and path e.g. localhost/ (which is root on this > machine). Localhost can be omitted, and you'd see three slashes in a > row, and the software will presume it's presence where it ought to be. > Also, another hostname could be used, and so long as it was accessible, > it could be used, instead. > > e.g. file://server/bookmarks.html > Hmm, my ignorance is showing. I wondered about the third slash but entering the location under "Open File" in Firefox inserted it and I simply used it. I will remember that. Opera is not my normal browser, just tried it on a whim since I had it left over from the F-13 upgrade to -14. It does not handle "file:///mnt/srvr1/index.html" it just keeps trying to access the server it appears form watching the eth0 monitor on gkrellm. I may have something set wrong in Opera ... Thanks. Bob -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines