in reply to Re^3: accessing files on rmote host
in thread accessing files on rmote host

As I remember opening a file through smb requires you adding "smb:/" In front of the file name.

Nope, that's correct just with a few I/O wrapper libraries, but not in the general case.

Alexander

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