Apache Server configuration support - Using files on network drives in windows

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Using files on network drives in windows

Nathan Funk

2007-08-25, 1:24 pm

I am using Apache 1.3.27 for Windows. I would like to alias a
directory off a network machine using the "//MachineName/folder"
notation, rather than mounting a drive and accessing using the
"G:/..." notation.

Is this possible?

When I try, I get a 403 Forbidden

DocumentRoot "//Fry/singularsys/Documents/website"

<Directory "//Fry/singularsys/Documents/website/">
Options FollowSymLinks Indexes
Allow from all
AllowOverride None
</Directory>

I don't want to mount the network directories as drives because it has
caused