Howdy everyone:
Believe me, I've searched high and low for an answer to how I can simply add a UNC path to my Intranet page in Confluence. None of the articles referencing anything about file:/// and all that business DO NOT work. When you attempt that method, Confluence says "Please enter a valid URL"
Seems awfully basic functionality to allow UNC paths, especially when my users are logging in via SAML.
Does anyone have a true fix?
Thanks for any help you may have.
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The "fix" is to understand what a UNC is. It is not a URL, and it's not "static" - it depends on how your networks are set up. In the most simple case for a UNC that will vary: /home/nic/bob.txt is not going to land on my bob.txt on your machine. And, of course, the server's UNC reading will be different (because it probably doesn't have /home/nic)
Try swapping to URLs, these define how to reach a resource and exactly where it is.
This is a poor response. A UNC is quite fixed in an environment using something like DFS. The namespace root \\domain.com\foo is distributed to the company - and that content can be hosted on a single or multiple shared folders across single/multiple hosts.
DFS Namespaces overview | Microsoft Learn
For a user where Confluence is an intranet-only solution, wanting to leverage UNCs is a pretty expected behavior.
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Um. You do know that that article is just a longer (and much better detailed and expansive) version of what I wrote?
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